As a secondary ELAR Coordinator in Rockwall, Texas, when we implemented the readers/writers workshop, my first goal was to share with...

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...

When I worked at a children’s science center, my favorite time of the year was summer camp season. We ran seven weeks of summer camps every year...

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

When we shift from a traditional approach to an inquiry approach in our classrooms, we also must shift how we assess and grade our...

In the seventh part of our Complex Books, In Context series, I’m “zooming out” on Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, written by Carol Boston...

The most recent news about the NAEP reading scores are concerning for sure. The headlines are scary: “NAEP Scores Show Large Declines in Reading...

I am a recovered Type A secondary English teacher. I used to pride myself on not wasting a single minute of class time. I had a neat...

As an English and speech teacher for mostly sophomores, I found myself frustrated when students seemed to be just going through the motions,...