"Last year, I decided I wanted to create a classroom space that was as unique as my students, a place where they would feel comfortable and want to come to class (that’s half the battle in high school, after all!). With my students’ wants and needs in mind, I created a flexible seating environment..."

As a literacy teacher to 5th-graders, it is always my mission to develop engaging ways to influence my students to love reading and writing.

I use my bulletin board as a way to reiterate that our students have the amazing power to grow as students and, more important, as kind people.

It was my goal last school year to encourage my students to pick books to read for fun.