Many schools boast of elaborate science labs, art classrooms with beautiful windows and natural light, and technology labs with the latest and greatest tools, but sometimes, teachers just step away from their classrooms to lead students on a journey of experiential learning - a hands-on, highly detailed adventure to take students out of the classroom, off campus, and into a larger world.  >>Read more.

If I could get a show of hands through a book review, I wonder how many of you would raise your hand if I asked if you've ever said, "I swear, I'm not THAT parent, but...." I imagine there would be quite a few hands up out there. As an educator, I swore when I became a parent I would never let that phrase enter into any parent/teacher conference I participated in. In my experience as a teacher, whatever follows this statement is, at its most innocent, an attempt to smooth their child's way by a well-meaning parent or, at its most egregious, an outright request for favor when something didn't go this parent's - err, child's - way.  >>Read more.