Egg Overdose: What to Do with Your 10M Eggs

Are you afraid of Easter egg overdose? Egg overdose is a real thing, something parents and teachers across the nation fear.  Everyone likes to color a million eggs, but no one wants to eat them.   If you cried every time someone boiled another dozen eggs to color,...

Dump Your Surplus. Get What You Really Need

If you have five million boxes of staples and there’s not a single pencil in site, you’ve got to do something immediately to get rid of your surplus to get the things you really need. You don’t want to file a request in triplicate that won’t...

Why Caesar’s Gruesome Death Makes me Celebrate Friends

Good friends make a great life. The Ides of March is almost here. That’s the day Julius Caesar was stabbed in the back by his friends.  Every March 15th, in honor of Caesar, I celebrate friends. “Caesar got killed though…” Yes, indeed. How many...

How to Make Your Classroom Website without Bleeding Cash

You can run an all-out technology-based classroom as a broke teacher… even if you don’t have computers or Chromebooks. All you need is a classroom website. Why a website? Websites are where our kids are used to getting information.  That’s where we...

Surviving Restaurants with Your Not Broke Friends

Broke teachers don’t go to fancy restaurants… “Can you go out to eat?” You want to see your non-teacher friends, but you know how this plays out. Everyone eats and drinks… then the bill comes and you have to split it five ways. I want to...