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Many educators who want to follow certain blogs on a regular basis are using handy ditigal tools to simplify the process. See this guide to RSS feeders at the Common Craft website (especially recommended for visual learners!). Lots of folks use Google Reader. ALSO SEE this helpful article at About.Com. And this very educator-friendly four-part series on RSS at the K12 Online Conference website.

Middle School 101 (lessons & projects from an 8th grade classroom teacher)

Teaching Isn't for Wimps (and 6th Grade Isn't for Sissies)

Rush the Iceburg - MS English teacher Steve Davis has a thing for metaphor.

The Line (7th grade English teacher writes about teaching)

Larry Ferlazzo's Resources of the Day

Engaging Parents in School

Lessons Learned in the Middle (MS principal Tom Saunders)

Mr. McClung's Sixth Grade World (Missouri)

Mr. Wiemer's Shop (Iowan Galyn Wiemers teaches 21stC shop, Gr. 6-8)

Teaching the Outsiders, Mark Coward, 7th grade English

Cossondra George, 7th grade math/SS, Newberry MS, Newberry, MI

Hannah's Monarchs, middle grades social studies, New Jersey

Ms. Teacher, Language Arts/GATE, California

The Tween Teacher, Heather Wolpert-Gawron, California

The Dream Teacher, Cindi Rigsbee, middle grades, North Carolina

On the Shoulders of Giants, Ariel Sacks, 8th Grade English, Brooklyn NY

it's a hardknock teacher's life (Spanish)

The Blurb (Sixth grade social studies)

The Tempered Radical, Bill Ferriter, 6th grade, Wake County, NC

A Place at the Table, Susan Graham, FACS teacher, Virginia

Living in Dialogue, Anthony Cody, middle grades science coach, Oakland CA

In the Middle, Hanne Denney, special education

Marsha Ratzel, middle grades science/math teacher, Overland Park, KS

The Jose Vilson, math, Lower East Side, NYC

Professional Blog - Middle School Team (Raleigh NC)

Cool Cat Teacher

Jeanne Simpson, middle grades math, Decatur, AL

Alayne Armstrong, Vancouver BC, Canada

Bill Ivey, Stoneleigh-Burnham School, Greenfield, MA

My Life in the T.F.A. Trenches (5th grade)

The Good Habits Blog (Eric MacKnight)

ALSO OF INTEREST

Teacher Magazine's BlogBoard highlights teacher blog entries from across the spectrum!

You can search Technorati for middle school-oriented blogs

The Teacher Leaders Network Teacher Voices blog features comments and book reviews by middle grades educators.

IF YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE YOUR BLOG on this page, write us!

The Middle School Diaries index page (list of entries, by diarist, for the 2002-03 school year)

Heather Migdon

Ellen Berg

Carolyn Beitzel

Ann Bianchetti

Chris Toy

Juli Kendall

The Middle School Diary Archives (previous years)

Search Middleweb Search WWW

The First-Year Principal's
Rules of Survival
In her final diary for 2000-01, middle grades principal Kristi Kahl shared some valuable lessons she learned as a first-year administrator.

Fab Friday at Freeport Middle
In this 2001-02 diary entry, Principal Chris Toy tells us about his school's thrice-yearly enrichment program.