One of the most rewarding things about being a teacher is watching my students continue the conversation as they leave the classroom. 

There will always be new tools to help teachers combat the use of AI.  A Chrome extension called Origin by GPTZero provides a writing ...

Schools and teachers usually organize ELA curriculum by novel, theme, or genre, or some combination of those three. 

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

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

There are many students that love literature for the world it creates, the brand-new world that exists only within the front and back cover

Teachers want their students to be readers, and not just readers of words. We want them to read the world around them: the streets ...

Creating a short film used to be a long and difficult process, so I gave up on it. But then it became much easier to shoot and edit video.

It’s not easy to find literature that gets students to talk about the world they live in. It can be done with any novel ...

AI is all the buzz lately. No need to teach writing anymore, a computer can do it...

Most students treat poetry like a highly academic art form meant for scholars. Most people feel the same way about visual art ...

This week, I asked students to connect the literature we study in class to the modern world. We had amazing, open-ended conversations ...

After I taught the elective Filmmaking for the first time a few years ago, I realized how easy it is for students to quickly create a ...

There is no challenge quite like teaching Shakespeare. Early modern English always poses challenges for teenage readers, and ...

No, not that kind of drama. Performance. Few people know how to act, but everyone knows what a good performance looks like. The words...

Every year, I complete the final assignment that I give my seniors. I ask them to talk about how it feels to graduate, what they've...

It’s hard to imagine that anything positive will come out of this year, but I’ve been thinking about what, if any, lessons I’ve learned ...

We’re finishing up a unit on Exit West by Mohsin Hamid this week so I’m asking my students to listen to a personal narrative of choice....

It’s pretty typical for a teacher, or anyone for that matter, to feel like they are swimming in new tech tools. But this year, it’s...

A lot of what we deal with in English language arts relates to strangers, people we don’t know. We read novels and non-fiction to immerse...

I’m trying to get as creative as possible when it comes to being flexible with students. After finishing a few units ...

My colleagues and I recently had a conversation about the rest of the year and what we could do to keep our students engaged....

I attended the virtual NCTE conference this past Friday and it got me thinking about the research paper, or really, rethinking it. Part...

Last week, I told my students to create sketchnotes on the poems we studied in class. I didn't really specify what I was looking for, I...