Most educators define literacy as the ability to read and write. And it is true, to be literate we need to know how to read and write. But is this...

The headlines and the frontlines agree on one important effect of the pandemic: Young people are struggling with mental health challenges like...

It was workshop week at the high school where I teach sophomore English and a ninth-grade literacy course. I was just beginning a year where I...

I can still remember the groans I would hear when I told my sixth graders it was time to learn about poetry. Poetry often brings out emotion,...

Working with English/Language Arts teachers on developing highly engaging and intentional inquiry units of study, one of the concerns I...

While I have always had a passion for student engagement and relationship-building, when I first started classroom teaching, I took a more...

Recently I decided that I was going to commit to beginning each day with yoga. My work-from-home body was telling me I really needed to start my...

Growing up I didn’t often consider if what I was learning would be useful or applicable to me in life outside of school. In fact, I didn’t think a...

I was sitting with my colleague, a fellow reading specialist, in our empty classroom one summer. We were donating time to planning, as many...

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billy Jean King As educators we keep trying to get things right. When I first started...