My Life as a Literacy Educator

For the #Ellchat_bkclub , we have been reading The 6 principles for exemplary teaching of English learners.  Chapter 4 mentions that English...

I was recently out of the classroom for two back-to-back conferences. My reading students had to survive without me for four days of school....

This year, I am teaching seventh grade reading intervention classes. Not every student in my class is a developing reader (a.k.a., struggli...

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...