This caped teacher and one of her caped friends watched Chicago a while back on the television box.  We intended to watch something else, bu...

I've mentioned before that I use the television show NCIS for inspiration--especially my name and my classroom rules ( current list her...

I am the opposite of cerebral.  I am intuitive, imaginative, and impractical.  I am loosey-goosey, dreamy, and have a casual relationship ...

I was going to title this post "god-light".  You know, the light that sometimes shines through the clouds and, some say, looks all...

One of my turtle-heads tends to favor a good lie (okay, any lie) over the truth.  As this caped teacher is, along with many others, able to ...

It's Father's Day, and as I've mentioned before ( here and here ) even Super Teachers have Dads.  I want to send a shout-out to...

Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs is one of my professional role models.  It is for him that I have asked my students this year to call me...

I have my 6th and 7th grade girls convinced that if they whine, I will get a nervous twitch.  This is not technically a lie, since I do thin...