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As I mentioned in my previous two posts, I’ve just come out of a reading slump. Now that I’m finally back into reading, I’ve given myself a pretty tall order for December. These are the five books currently on my December TBR. While the Dark Remains by Joanna Ruth Meyer This book came from Amazon First Reads, which gives Prime members one free Kindle book every month. I’ve been claiming those books faithfully—and then being absolutely terrible about reading them. This time,

Freshly out of a book slump, I read three books in November. Here are my thoughts. Morning Star by Pierce Brown The first book I finished was Morning Star by Pierce Brown, the final installment in the first trilogy of the Red Rising series. The synopsis reads: “I think of all my people bound in darkness, of all the colors on all the worlds shackled and chained so that Gold might rule, and I feel the rage burn across the hollow they have carved into my soul. This is not how

As this year is coming to an end, I started looking back at all of the books I’ve read. I didn’t quite reach my 50-book goal on Goodreads, but I have read 35 books so far this year—and I’m still proud of that. At the beginning of the year, reading came easily. In January, I read five books. February brought four. March, three. April, five. May, five again. June, four. July, three. And then… you can see where the slump started. In August, September, and October, I only read on

When teaching high school, student materials can quickly become chaotic without some organization in place. Here are three tips to keep student materials nice and neat Names On Textbooks Obviously, students should always have their names on their textbooks. However, if the students write their names on the top and bottom sides, then you can see whose book is whose when stacking them on a bookshelf. Bonus points if you can have one bookshelf per class period. LARGE Turn-In Bin

Do you find your desk cluttered and stressful by the end of the week, or even the end of the day? Here are some ways to keep your desk organized and functional. Desk Planner I know, I know, planners aren't for everybody. I thought planners weren't for me. That was until I found a weekly desk planner! Looking at an entire month at a time was overwhelming and sometimes confusing for me. Instead I switched to a weekly desk planner so I could compartmentalize my plans one week at

Since I decided to become a teacher, I dreamed of my classroom library. I thought I could convince every student to read some of my favorite books. Now in my fifth year of teaching, I realize how delusional that thought was. My classroom library has shrunk to less than a full shelf of books. Why? Because I can't stock a book for every student that walks in my classroom. There's no room and I'd be broke. That's what their school library is for anyway. So, how can you curate yo