My Life as a Literacy Educator

This week, I have returned to school to assist with our third annual incoming seventh-grade student orientation camp. I volunteer my service...

Over spring break, I managed to read another chapter of Keep it R.E.A.L!: Relevant, engaging, and affirming literacy for adolescent Englis...

Winter break was a long 18 days, and I did not think about school one time, as I was in the process of selling one house and buying another....

A few weeks ago, I received an unexpected message in my work email from a professor at Texas Woman's University. Dr. Mandy Stewart , a p...

October 20, was the National Day on Writing. For weeks, I tried determine how to incorporate the day into my AVID class. We do write, but yo...

At our second annual Edcamp Arlington TX, we gave away George Couros' The Innovator's Mindset as one of many door prizes. I chose th...

This summer, I was introduced to a book chat on Twitter specifically focused on English language learners. The first book I read for #ELLCha...