My Life as a Literacy Educator

This Thursday, representatives from the Texas Literacy Initiative in Austin and within the district are coming to observe classes to see voc...

I am posting some of my favorite pieces from my student writing assignments for "Are you driving your teacher crazy?" Why yes...

Last weekend, I bought a Mini Voodoo doll. She represents focus on the climb toward one's goals. Some situations this year have creeped...

Now that my students have a living first draft , it is time to teach them some higher level sentence structure. Tomorrow, we will begin foc...

During our post- tableaux talk on Friday, I asked one of my classes what they thought about using "Are you driving your boss crazy?...

After my excitement over last week's lesson on tableaux , I started to get a little nervous about the actual performance pieces. My fall...

I woke up excited about this lesson, and after today, I am even more excited for tomorrow. In my bones, I knew this was going to be good, an...