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. 

It’s easy for students to get caught in the trap of simply identifying literary techniques without considering their purpose ...

July has come to an end and it’s that time when the thought of school starts to plan its seed in every teacher’s mind. What will this year

Every teacher is familiar with the kind of student who struggles to pay attention for a long period of time...

For me, stress always hits at the end of a marking period. I suddenly realize how much I need to grade . . .

As the school year winds down, it’s good to think about all the adjustments we’ve made to keep kids engaged and interested in learning ..

Teachers have a lot on their plate right now. So let’s think about how to scrape some off for the dog ...

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

If you’ve ever listened to a fellow teacher deliver a presentation about their favorite project or unit, you know how creativity and passion

What if we treated our students like we treat athletes? What if we taught like a coach at halftime? What if we could recreate the same...

After some years teaching, I realized that my love of learning about literature turned into a love of learning about how to teach literature

Introduction to Teaching the Magic of Literature: Using Imagination to Shape the Future It was one of the simplest, yet most complicated...

This has been a challenging year for any teacher. Even during a regular year, teachers work hard to meet the many demands and...

My school will start remote learning this Monday, and everyone is scrambling to find the best and easiest tools to make life easier.

July is here and its arrival makes me think of all those future teachers out there, stalking job websites and submitting online applications

I strongly believe that authentic narratives from my students are the most useful information to improve myself, more useful than profession

Children don’t compete on a level playing field in our country.

This is the hardest thing for any teacher. Take a very difficult and complicated topic and make it easy to understand.

I became a teacher to talk about literature, not to talk about grades and due dates and rubrics and expectations.

Every English teacher works tirelessly to instill a love of reading in their students. We convince them that literature matters.

Creativity sometimes comes from conversations with people outside our field of study, but sometimes from people trying to tackle the same ex

You just have to read the title and first few sentences from a recent article in Education Week to understand the potential of Teacher’s Wor

Unconscious mental processes, developed from years of prior experience, determine many decisions we make automatically, without deliberation