Welcome to Classroom Practice!
Great teaching isn’t about having the perfect lesson.
It’s about creating classrooms where students feel seen, challenged, supported, and inspired to learn.
Whether you’re looking for a strategy to increase engagement, improve classroom management, strengthen assessment, or simply make tomorrow’s lesson a little better than today’s, I hope you’ll find something here that helps.
This collection brings together practical ideas, classroom-tested strategies, downloadable resources, and reflections from my own teaching journey. Browse by topic, explore the latest articles, and take what works for your classroom.
After all, every great teacher is still learning.
Featured Resource
There isn’t a perfect formula for great teaching, but there is a teacher only you can become. This book is an invitation to embrace the beautiful chaos of the classroom while building meaningful relationships, creating engaging learning experiences, and teaching with confidence, purpose, and heart.
From The Classroom
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In Case You Missed It: August at Perfect Chaos
August has been full of new beginnings, back-to-school conversations, and more than a little Perfect Chaos. Before we step into September, I wanted to make sure you did not miss what has been happening. The inaugural edition of From the Front Porch arrived on August 1. In The Work of Beginning, I reflected on leaving…
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Why Educators Are Exhausted in an Always-On World
If you ask educators how they are doing right now, most won’t say they are overwhelmed by teaching itself. They’ll say they’re overwhelmed by everything surrounding it. The emails.The learning platforms.The grading systems.The messages at all hours.The pressure to respond quickly, stay visible, and always be available. Teaching has never been an easy profession, but…
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Purpose, Path, Vision, AI
What do those 4 words have to do with each other? I have said it multiple times on the podcast, I say it all the time in class when I teach, it’s my mantra when I am delivering PD or coaching someone on how to integrate technology. You have to have a purpose. AI is…
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It’s AI Month!!
How excited are you for AI month with Perfect Chaos? In all honesty, I couldn’t think of a better topic to relaunch with than AI. when I think of something that has created chaos in education lately, AI definitely comes to mind. The arguments about whether or not to use it in the classroom, the…
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Relaunching the Perfect Chaos
It’s official, your favorite creators of chaos are coming back in July. We are going to relaunch Perfect Chaos with all new exciting content and a plan for the rest of the year. Lately life ahs just gotten a little hectic, so Ronda is back in the planning mode that she loves and has worked…
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Wrapping up Spring 2024
Whew. What a semester. I’m not sure how it has been for you, but Spring 2024 around here has been a semester for the books. Lots of crazy busy stuff happened, I had surgery on the first day of class, David got appointed to our state EMS board and a national board, I finished and…
