Blogs about Education

http://theclassyteacher.blogspot.com/ -- Mrs. Weaver is a middle school teacher in Little Rock. She details her day to day achievements and struggles within her classroom. While she hasn’t posted much this year, she has some great posts in the archives.

http://www.lessonsfromthemiddle.com/ -- Krystal Mills is a 7^th grade teacher currently who blogs about different ideas that she comes across and tries in her classroom. She also networks with other blogs so the entire site is almost like a one stop shop for middle school.

http://flippedclassroom.blogspot.com/ -- Delia Bush is a teacher at Kenowa Hills and teaches 5^th grade. She blogs about different ideas that she implements in her classroom. What drew me to her blog are the flipped classroom posts (which are deeper in the blog) and how she does it at an elementary level.

https://thisteachersings.wordpress.com/ -- This blogger is a music teacher and touches on publicly (which is why she probably doesn’t use her name) on issues that are hot button topics in education. Her most recent post was very interesting, describing what a 3% cut can do in education.

http://www.mrswatersenglish.com/ -- Mrs. Waters is a high school English teacher in Rural Oklahoma. She offers her insight on the educational climate and giving resources that uses in her own classroom.

http://www.globicate.com/ -- This is a great resource for global education. It is not recent, but like some of my other choices, many of the older posts are very good. This one struck a chord with me because as a social studies teacher I am constantly trying to teach my students to think outside of their community.

http://worldhistoryeducatorsblog.blogspot.com/ -- This is an excellent source for all things world history! It also talks about flip classrooms, which is a big interest of mine at the moment. It is geared more towards high school, but again, with a little tweaking it could be relevant to middle school.

https://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/ -- This is joint blog written by Stacey Shubitz and Anna Gratz. Ann is an editor for Heinemann Publishing and Stacey is a literacy specialist and was 5^th grade teacher at P.S. 171 in East Harlem, NY. They both contribute to the blog, which focuses on writing in the classroom.

http://6thsocialstudiesmcginty.blogspot.com/  -- This blog is kept by Matthew McGinty who teaches 6^th grade Social Studies. This is more meant for his students, as it details assignments for each day. I find it very useful because I am teaching 6^th grade social studies for the first time and having outside resources is great, especially the first time through the curriculum.

http://themiddleschoolmouth.blogspot.com/ -- This blog is written by a middle school teacher in North Carolina. This teacher uses interactive notebooks, which is interesting to me. While his blog isn’t very current, his past posts are good and it looks like he is starting to get at posting.