My Life as a Literacy Educator

One of my summer reads was Teach Like a Pirate . Reading this book showed me how much I already do to engage my students, while also emphasi...

As I have been dealing with issues getting my Scholastic READ 180 class off the ground, I have had to improvise and fill time. My focus has ...

Fifteen years ago, I was a teaching assistant at our alternative placement junior high. When I first went to the school to sub, I had no ide...

Today I started teaching my first Texas Literacy Initiative vocabulary routine of the year. Earlier this summer, I was skimming through Ha...

After reading Teach Like a Pirate , I decided to incorporate a collaboration activity into my lessons for the first week. My student desks a...

Ah, it's time for the first blog of the new school year. I have been anxious to get started and share the wonderful things my new group...

I believe that I am a horrible question writer, but that is probably because I do not write very many questions. I am reading Classroom Asse...