Fall is in full swing already, and with the season comes a bit of rain and some brisker weather. Leaves are covering the grounds, and you’ve got a classroom full of children. So how can you make this work for you? By making the best of a cloudy, windy...

Creating Your Teachers Pay Teachers Account For decades, teachers have been silently creating amazing content for their classrooms. No outlet existed for them to share with other educators in the country, state, or even their own area. Then Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) came along and changed everything! The hard...

Sign up for the Plymouth Rock Teachers’ Lounge newsletter, and be entered for a chance to win a $250 Teachers Pay Teachers gift card!   We’re committed to supporting teachers. With blogs by fellow educators that entertain and inform, local and national deals and discounts for teachers, and a...

September is here – bus drivers are practicing their runs, kids are excitedly buying their supplies, teachers are setting up their classrooms, yet here I am freaking out! How can I possibly keep calm when it is my first year of teaching? I have to attend training sessions, create...

New Healthcare Proposal for NJ Teachers Details of the Legislation, How It Effects Your Wallet as a Public Educator and Where the NJEA Stands There is a political storm brewing in the New Jersey senate. While that statement might typically invoke an eye roll and a yawn of indifference,...

1700+ Participants “Caught the Wave” at the 4th Annual Teacher Week at the Beach Event   Educators from the New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York areas enjoyed another great Teacher Week at the Beach event at the Jersey Shore this month. Brought to you by Plymouth Rock’s Teachers’ Insurance...

It doesn’t seem possible that the summer is drawing to a close! Soon, we will all be back to school and summer will seem a distant memory. But you and I both know that prepping for back to school can be a lot of fun, especially when it comes...

 Source: GoComics   In my last blog, I suggested teachers start the summer by slowing down and embracing the present. And I meant it. I hope you took my words to heart these past few weeks. I know I did.   But as the heat of July settles in, and we...

The teaching year has a rhythm all its own. If any profession has a special relationship with seasons and holidays, it’s teaching. The back-to-school transition is nearly synonymous with the start of autumn. The middle of the school year is like two campaigns against the magnetic draws of winter...