Praying for Students
Life as we know it changed very suddenly last week. Many of our students will now be facing circumstances that are difficult to process. Some will be without food; others […]
“Crossing”
In preparation for National Poetry Month in April, I am working on a post for NCTE featuring Jericho Brown. This is based on an activity that I’ve done for the […]
An English Teacher’s Reading Life: February 2020
Leap year!! That means an extra day of reading in 2020. February was a good reading month primarily because I had a few work trips which gave me some extra […]
Reading: January, 2020
Man’s Search for Meaning, ★★★★★ Frankl, 2006, Nonfiction “For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.” Frankl’s book […]
#StopTeacherGuilt
There are so many education trends that I can get behind: interdisciplinary learning and projects, culturally responsive teaching, and the promotion of teaching living poets and disrupting texts in an […]
Who’s Doing the Work?
This post originally appeared on my professional blog and is reprinted here. Enjoy! e·piph·a·ny /əˈpifənē/ a moment of sudden revelation or insight January 6th marks Epiphany as the Christian tradition […]
Happy New Year
A Year in the Books
I read 65 books this year. People ask how I read so much. 1 – I am at a stage in life where I have more time to read. If […]
An English Teacher’s Reading Life: June to December 2019
I did a terrible job posting to my personal blog this year, so here’s my reading from June until today. Here’s a link to what I read from January […]
