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What are my favorite things about Brain Books you ask???   I could explain many, many things about them but how about we save time and ...

As Brain Books are a fundamental part of our student-centered classroom, we introduce them right away on the first day of school.   For the...

So you may be wondering, what all goes into a Brain Book anyway? To that wewould reply: almost EVERYTHING we do finds its way intothe Brai...

When Brain Books were integrated into our learning environments, we saw a dynam...

 Brain Books have become the anchor within our learning environment, for our students as well as us personally.   Ann and I have bee...

Image found here I continue to appreciate the abundance of resting, playing, reading, planning, and learning the summertime has had t...

Earlier this summer Celina and I attended a training centered on moving to the Common Core in math.   Over the two day workshop we had the o...

July is half way through and I am reveling in the long days and hot temperatures that have me finding a quiet place to keep on reading. ...