It’s that time again when we will be saying goodbye to this year’s students. Whether they are moving on to a new grade, new school, or...

Previously, I shared a blog on 10 ways to make inquiry work in the ELA classroom where I reflected on my frustrations as a 10th-grade...

I was sitting in my doctoral quantitative research class feeling overwhelmed and frankly, stupid. I didn’t understand numbers. I was an...

When working with ELA and literacy educators to increase students’ engagement and achievement in reading, I often run into a set of...

I recently published a book with Solution Tree called Inspiring Lifelong Readers: Using Inquiry to Engage Learners in Grades 6-12. In it I share...

Reading for enjoyment can have tremendous physical and mental health benefits, from increasing empathy, building our vocabulary, reducing...

Of course, educators want students to develop into lifelong readers and learners. We want our students to find genres, authors, series,...

When I first introduced book clubs to my sophomores more than a decade ago, I had no idea what I was doing. I just knew that I needed...

Leadership teams wanting to bring about any kind of change in schools right now may be (understandably) met with resistance from the...

Pizza for reading, tickets for good behavior, points for participation, stickers for homework completion, marbles in a jar for teamwork,...