Slice of Class Sprinkled with Crazy

Teaching is "Here, Miss Maddox, I made this for you. It's Catwoman." "Thank you, [name of small child who has spent w...

Today I had a breakthrough. Normally, breakthroughs are not things that are needed in the first full week of teaching. Normally, breakth...

There's a scene in a Toy Story movie where a toy tells Jessie, "Jessie! Remember your training!" To which she replies, "...

Yesterday in the middle of my fabulous lesson on the Constitution (read: students were paying attention, participating, and learning about h...

We the students of Miss Maddox's 6th grade class Today we wrote our class constitution. in order to form a more perfect classroom, ...

Things that happened today: 1. There was a wasp in my classroom. Don't worry, it didn't sting anyone. It didn't really bother ...

Today I had a grand total of not 1, not 2, not 3, but zero students cry today. That's right, folks, count 'em, 0. This despite stu...