My Life as a Literacy Educator

In addition to getting to know my students during the first week of school, I wanted my new kids to get to know them...

Tomorrow is the first day of school with my 2015-2016 students. I will have 118 (at last count) new bodies in my classroom, some of whom I...

Well, not really, but now that I have your attention, let me share a seating/grouping strategy that I learned about this summer at AVID Cu...

Years ago, I was asked to present an in-service workshop for other ELA teachers in my district, and I did it because I do not like (or know ...

Until this week, winning and acknowledgement were in no way synonymous in my brain. As a teacher, I have never been concerned with winning s...

"You can't write a poem about McDonald's" has been one of my favorite poems for years now. I have been teaching it annuall...

Today one of my district technology representatives came to my campus to teach my students (and me) how to  It turns out that most of...