Fall is finally here and I’m excited! I don’t know about you, teacher friends, but I’m all about sweatshirt weather, fall leaves, and candy corn. If you need to get excited about this season, look no further than the October issues of The Mailbox® Magazine. I spent some time looking at all the grade levels…
If you’re a member of The Mailbox® Gold, you not only get access to our online library of thousands of ideas for your grade level, you also get new ideas every month through our online magazine. What is awesome about an online teacher magazine? Well, it means that I’m not bound by a certain number…
The September issues of The Mailbox® magazine are online—and they’re full of goodies just perfect for the beginning of the school year, including activities and printables appropriate for both social distancing and virtual learning. I took a look through the issues and thought I would show some highlights from different grade levels. (This is only…
2013. Just when it was getting interesting—with a surprise Beyonce album, an actual bipartisan budget deal in Washington, DC, and a Boston Red Sox World Series celebration duck boat parade—it’s time to turn the calendar over to 2014.* Here’s a look back at some of the highlights from The Mailbox in 2013. The Mailbox turned…
Over at our Be The Difference blog, my colleague Diane is running her Gobble, Gobble Giveaway—contribute an idea that saves time during the school day and be entered for a chance to win a book of your choice from The Mailbox. Before you go rushing over to Diane’s blog (and I encourage you to do…
At some point in a teacher’s summer, one’s thoughts turn to the coming school year. Instead of hitting the snooze button 47 times in a row, you hit it 32 times one day, then 18 times soon after, until you’re finally down to just twice. You find yourself glancing longingly at your local teacher store…
Having a classroom on the third floor of an 85-year-old school building in New England in the middle of winter was pure joy. Before students started streaming into the building, I could stand in the silence and look out my classroom windows to watch thin trails of pure white steam rising from rooftops of neighboring…