My Life as a Literacy Educator

This is my third year teaching eighth grade (after eight years teaching every possible reading/writing variation of seventh grade we have ha...

I have spent a great deal of time this winter break familiarizing myself with social media outlets that I have never used or never understo...

I had put together a haiku lesson for the first day back to school, but I am going to push that off to the second day. Over the break, I hav...

The Daily Create has suckered me in once again with today's assignment : write ten things you will not accomplish in 2014.  I will no...

I have mentioned before that my school is part of a state grant, the Texas Literacy Initiative, and the focus this year is on vocabulary. I ...

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, everyone else was sleeping but me because, seriously, who needs sleep anyw...

I serve many roles on my campus, one of which is to head up our Sunshine Committee. The purpose of the group is to help make lives a little ...