The Purpose of Literary Devices and Techniques
It’s easy for students to get caught in the trap of simply identifying literary techniques without considering their purpose ...
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Aug 2, 20232 min read
More Fun, Less Stress
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
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Nov 22, 20222 min read
Learning and Exercise: A Conversation with ActivEd Founder Dr. Julian Reed
Every teacher is familiar with the kind of student who struggles to pay attention for a long period of time...
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Nov 17, 20222 min read
How to Avoid Teacher Burnout: 3 Solutions
For me, stress always hits at the end of a marking period. I suddenly realize how much I need to grade . . .
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May 5, 20223 min read
5 Musings for Next Year
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 ..
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Feb 24, 20223 min read
Happy Teacher, Happy Student
Teachers have a lot on their plate right now. So let’s think about how to scrape some off for the dog ...
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Jan 10, 20223 min read
New Year, New Habits: Reflecting on Reflecting
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
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Dec 7, 20213 min read
The Best Secondary English Language Arts (ELA) Blogs, Podcasts and Websites for High School Teachers
If you’ve ever listened to a fellow teacher deliver a presentation about their favorite project or unit, you know how creativity and passion
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Nov 11, 20213 min read
What If We Treat Students Like Athletes?
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...
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Mar 4, 20213 min read
The Case for Content-Specific Professional Development
After some years teaching, I realized that my love of learning about literature turned into a love of learning about how to teach literature
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Feb 13, 20213 min read
Why Do You Want to Be a Teacher?
Introduction to Teaching the Magic of Literature: Using Imagination to Shape the Future It was one of the simplest, yet most complicated...
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Jan 19, 20214 min read
What Makes a Superteacher?
This has been a challenging year for any teacher. Even during a regular year, teachers work hard to meet the many demands and...
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Aug 3, 20205 min read
Essential Virtual Tools for ELA Teachers
My school will start remote learning this Monday, and everyone is scrambling to find the best and easiest tools to make life easier.
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Jul 9, 20203 min read
3 Tips for a Successful ELA Teaching Interview and Job Hunt
July is here and its arrival makes me think of all those future teachers out there, stalking job websites and submitting online applications
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Jun 11, 20202 min read
The Value of an End of Year Course Evaluation
I strongly believe that authentic narratives from my students are the most useful information to improve myself, more useful than profession
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Jun 2, 20204 min read
4 Easy Ways to End Injustice in Education Now
Children don’t compete on a level playing field in our country.
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May 12, 20204 min read
4 Ways to Simplify Teaching English Language Arts
This is the hardest thing for any teacher. Take a very difficult and complicated topic and make it easy to understand.
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Mar 26, 20202 min read
Grades Should Be Invisible
I became a teacher to talk about literature, not to talk about grades and due dates and rubrics and expectations.
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Dec 28, 20194 min read
A Novel Way to Teach the Novel
Every English teacher works tirelessly to instill a love of reading in their students. We convince them that literature matters.
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Dec 4, 20192 min read
The Power of Job-Embedded Professional Development
Creativity sometimes comes from conversations with people outside our field of study, but sometimes from people trying to tackle the same ex
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Oct 15, 20191 min read
A New Approach to Professional Development
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
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Oct 8, 20192 min read
Creativity and Collaboration
Unconscious mental processes, developed from years of prior experience, determine many decisions we make automatically, without deliberation
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