Teachers already have a stressful job while in school.  They shouldn’t also bring that stress home and let it continue on their time off. 

Freud had a lot of wild theories, but a simple understanding of the short essay “The Structure of the Unconscious” can help students easily

Graphic organizers help students that think logically like scientists and mathematicians.

There’s nothing like close reading.  A bunch of colorful annotations on a poem is a beautiful thing.  Close reading is a valuable skill and

Sometimes I find myself trying to think of ways to create connections between literature and the real world. 

Teaching students the value of using quotes in an essay is more important now than ever ...

The end of the school year is the best time to get ideas for next year. All the successful and failed experiments are still fresh in my...

Some books, maybe most, don’t require much introduction. Novels, to some extent, exist in their own world.

It feels like it’s getting harder and harder to keep the attention of our students. Every teacher knows that if a student doesn’t use ...

Early in my career, I remember rolling through a novel chapter by chapter with PowerPoint slides and handouts. It always drove me crazy ...

It’s a new year and this will be my 100th blog and podcast, so I’ve been thinking about reflection, the mental process of looking back and t

Every time I sit down to plan a unit, I think about how I can move inward, into the mind of the protagonist. I want to go from the external