National Board Certification is a challenging journey. Make it easier on yourself by avoiding a few common pitfalls.

Firm structure and thoughtful classroom practices can help you meet the needs of challenging students.

Deep in their hearts EVERY student has the same question: “What are you going to do about it?” Effective teachers provide a quick, calm, and fair answer.

It’s incredibly hard to teach when your students wont behave. It’s demoralizing, and there are no easy answers. Here are 18 suggestions to - not fix it, but to help make it better. (Part 1)

Teaching vocabulary from authentic source documents and having students develop their own vocabulary lists develops student buy-in, language learning capacity, and confidence!

3 practices that discourage speaking proficiency - and how to avoid them

How a few simple tweaks to my rubric led to faster grading and better feedback.

How you can help students overcome Foreign Language Anxiety to improve their speaking proficiency

Or, why you can’t be on your phone or play computer games during this class!

How I declared war, and made peace with cell phones, social media, and video games in my classroom