My Life as a Literacy Educator

Before beginning The Giver , I explained to my students that we would be going through the first chapter slowly, as we often do not give eno...

I had a special moment with some students from my sixth period class today. I do not mean Church Lady "special" but a truly specia...

While my Pre-AP students are reading Milkweed , my academic students will be reading The Giver . Last year, I will honestly admit that I did...

My Pre-AP class is reading (or going to be) Milkweed to wrap up the first semester. I handed out the books Thursday and asked them to read...

My insane need to read means that I will never be able to get through everything on my list, so in the past year, I have taught myself how t...

Next week, we go school wide with the weekly learning logs . Since I made the assignment, I decided to do a trial run today. Of course, I ...

In the middle of an independent work lesson, one of my male students says, "Ms. Foti, do you have a period?" A female student si...