My Life as a Literacy Educator

For this year's AVID Conference in Dallas, I am enrolled in a strand focused on English language learners. I am the ESL lead teacher at ...

Although the world is full of many Zumba fanatics, I am not one of them. Despite what most people realize, Beto actually released a failed h...

I have been sick since school ended, and most of my time has been spent in bed either sleeping, watching television, or reading. Last night,...

7:00: Email colleagues about going to lunch at 12:30. Hey, I worked out this morning, and I am already starving.  7:50 AM: Where are my sc...

The past couple of months have been rough, and I have not had much to say about lessons because it feels like all we are doing is testing, t...

Every year, I have an imaginary celebrity boyfriend. This started in 2001 with the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the R...

This week, I truly struggled with one student, one whom I have known since he was a seventh grader last year. He was coming late, telling me...