Mr. Gillespie's Office

Every two and a half days a billion tweets are sent! It’s important that we as teachers understand Twitter as our students are using it...

At the end of the first day of school, students will be caring home 4, 5, 6, 7 back to school letters to their parents. Multiply that by th...

Several months ago I wrote about embracing risk-taking in our schools ( here , here , and here ). Wanting to show my c...

You burn the midnight oil, staying up late to grade and make thoughtful comments on students’ papers. After enteri...

With our state and AP tests upon us, we’re faced with a new challenge: how do we keep students engaged in learning? We often complain ab...

In my first fifteen years of teaching, I struggled to develop an effective, fair and student-learning centered late work policy. My policie...

The following is a follow-up to my post on redos and retakes.   Implementing redos and retakes takes extra time and effort, but the fol...