The morning of the first day of school, every student desk is neat and tidy. Every crayon where it belongs, every pencil in its place. Ahhhh, Heaven. Two hours later half of the desks look like a tornado struck them. I was pulling my hair out. I looked, and used, many different techniques to help students organize their desks. After all, how could they ever find their math book if it was at the bottom of an overflowing pile of....well, junk. Nothing worked for longer than a day, if that. ...
