Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire: Methods and Madness Inside Room 56

This is truly the best kind of "best practice" book, because the methods are tied to the real stories of real classrooms. Room 56 especially highlights the success immigrants and ELLs can achieve when they receive the right instruction.

Back in town

Autumn in Boston has come and gone since my last post. Where did the season go? Among the many new skills acquired, creating balance has been the most difficult skill to master. Definitely not there yet, but things are looking up.

I'm more pumped about teaching now than I was when I arrived. Along with my colleagues and scholars, I've been sponging up whatever I can from master educators such as Rafe Esquith and Ron Clark.