Yesterday I found out that my high school English teacher passed away. She was a legend in Trussville, Alabama, and as you can imagine, a large inspiration for me. The […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]