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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Perfect Chaos on the Road – ISTELive Days 3 & 4
Well, you know what they say about good intentions. Tuesday was day 3 of ISTELive, and I had it planned out to be a lower key kind of day. This is when I had most of my volunteer hours planned, so I knew it was going to be a different experience than the previous 2…
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Perfect Chaos on the road – ISTELive Day 2
Sorry that this didn’t post last night, to be totally honest I fell asleep typing and watching the Men’s College World Series. Here’s my recap from Day 2. My day 2 was a totally different kind of day than day 1. EdTech Bites Podcast I started out the day with Gabriel Carillo from the EdTech…
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Perfect Chaos on the Road ISTELive 23 Day 1
Time for a new blog post and this time I am on the road and blogging from ISTELive 23 in Philadelphia. I’m going to blog my way through each session I go to/each activity that I do. That means these posts will get updated throughout the day and I’ll post at night. First session –…
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News and Themes
So…. you may have seen that we are back at the podcast. This time we are trying something new. Video. That’s right, now you can watch me roll my eyes at David right there on YouTube. I am also working on getting us several episodes ahead and getting the TikTok rolling with some new content.…
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Quotes, Habits, and Apps
Do you like a good quote? I love them, and think we can learn a ton from them. Quotes made by the people around us, quotes made by our family and friends, quotes made in history, quotes that helped to shape the world, etc. A few years ago, I had a friend that had books…
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What’s your excitement?
We have hit that time of the year. The one where the odds of getting a snow day anytime soon is pretty slim (at least where we are); Spring Break is close enough to feel like you can grab hold of it but far enough away to feel like we are never going to get…
