Scott Benedict

Everyone wants to have a simple, full-proof plan that they can learn, adopt, and execute and have very obedient students that never act up, never are disrespectful, and are always happy, cooperative, and compliant.

At the end of last school year, I had the pleasure of reading another one of Ben Slavic's excellent books called A Natural Approach to Stories. Now building characters is a mainstay of my classroom

Let's review the basic 3 steps of TPRS Establish meaning. Ask a story. Read.

If you know anything about standards-based grading, you know it's all about demonstrating what you can DO with what you know. It's definitely NOT about the path you took to get there.

Many people have been asking about my participation system over the last few weeks. It's been a while since I wrote about my ¡Págame! system and a lot has changed since then.

In 2010, I finally learned what Susie Gross had been telling us all along. She had been saying to us that you need to love every child, even if you don't. I had heard the words for years, but it didn't really sink in until fall of 2010, but the story begins a year earlier.