Mike Ward

Hello and happy last week to most!  The end of the school year is a hectic and emotional time.  Relationships built throughout the year...

I hope you enjoyed the Memorial Holiday.  After some consideration, I decided not to post last Monday.  Rather, I decided to really take...

Seems to be a common pattern recognized in my experience and by my peers, the further one gets from their classroom the more one strays...

I hosted a community training last weekend in our district library and it was facilitated by a former Dragon, Lorrie MacGlivery. Not...

Since my last correspondence, I had the opportunity to teach a class of teachers at the Macomb Intermediate School District.  The topic...

So, when I started teaching in 1993, things were much different. I was ready to change the world in the first semester and had more...

Question? Do you pride yourself in creating the activities that define your curriculum or do you use pre-made resources that have been...

The back story ends with a question: - 4 students coming in late at different times - 3 phone calls  - 2 bathroom passes (emergencies of...

On the long drive home from Spring Break, in between audio books and music, I found myself thinking about how a classroom teacher...

So, the family is in Gulf Shores enjoying some heat (compared to Michigan) with several other teacher families. Of course, the talk...

If we could only bill our time like an attorney. So interesting to overlay time on a teacher's world. Did you ever get unexpected time...

A veteran teacher told a few stories recently about colleagues over the years and how March was a very stressful month for teachers. ...

When you are giving, you are living! While coaching a colleague through a second project today, I could not help but reflect back to the...

The theme was created by a former student, Lacresha Holt. I would really like to know your thoughts. Please feel free to comment. ...