Paws Along the Trail with Similes I often need to tell people that I don’t teach the Iditarod.  The Iditarod race is a tool for

Paws Along the Trail with a Dog Handler Mushers often employ dog handlers at their kennels.  These people work hard keeping the dog yard clean and

Paws Along the Trail with Wolves or Dogs? Wolves, ghosts, pumpkins…these are all things we think about on Halloween. Though I hid as a child

Paws Along the Trail with World Flags How many countries have been represented by mushers in the Iditarod?  It’s a question your geography or math students

What a great conference we had!  Learning how to incorporate the Iditarod into STEM, primary source research, literacy, writing, math, and art was the emphasis

Paws Along the Trail: making a mental Iditarod picture Do my students understand what multiplication actually represents?   For example, that 8 x 42 is 8 rows

Paws Along the Trail with Lhotse, the  Mom Dog Athlete  Shaynee Traska was all smiles and the first rookie musher to sign up for the 2018

Paws Along the Trail with Adoption What happens to sled dogs when they are retired or when they just don’t have the heart for pulling?

Back when I began following the Iditarod and the EDU website, I read about 2004 Teacher on the Trail™, Jeff Peterson. I remember thinking, “Wow!