To be a successful farm or school, we must nurture that which nurtures us—we’re only as good as our soil, after all. Maintaining the soil is as important as the price we get at market for a bushel of our corn. We are not interested in mere short-term production, but in stewardship of the land, developing both orchard and cash crop.

Unique activities to kick off the new school year, tested on real students and shared by teachers in the Teachers.Net Lesson Bank! To start, get out a roll of toilet paper…

Great activities to enjoy when your students can’t go outdoors, or for active time fillers by classroom and substitute teachers!

During this busy back-to-school season what teacher has the time and energy to put together great meals after work? Not the teachers we know! So, we offer this collection of slow cooker recipes shared by Melissa on the Recipes Chatboard. Thanks to Melissa, coming home from work won’t mean more work…you’ll be greeted by a meal ready to eat!

This month Barbara provides suggestions for noise control and keeping students on task.

All across the world students are nodding off in lecture halls, executives are yawning in boardrooms, military personnel are being anesthetized at briefings, and committees are being put to sleep in government offices by infected carriers that are unaware of their condition.

A real-life story about the usefulness of math in everyday life and why we need to remind students of this more often.

It is always difficult for me to seek a new volunteering post. I use an electric wheelchair, I’m 77 years old, I was new in this agricultural valley, and my name is Goldstein. In this Christian, provincial, rural valley, I fully expected those features to raise eyebrows when I applied for volunteer positions.

Today, much of our society accepts some of the most hurtful language as acceptable humor… What’s appropriate in the classroom?

We’ve all been there… the mandatory workshops arranged by our school districts in which the speakers are talking about subject matter that has absolutely no relevancy to our current teaching assignment. Many of us have no interest in the subject being addressed but we are forced to attend. In those situations, it’s a torturous 6 hours we have to endure in order to get our daily pay and obtain the all powerful “evidence of completion” paper to add to our file for certificate renewal.