Professional Development for Secondary ELA Teachers

About five years ago, I read an article by a high school student about the way to create a LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum...

It’s easy to say to our students that literature should be meaningful. It’s easy to ask students … what does that line mean?

It’s pretty typical for a teacher, or anyone for that matter, to feel like they are swimming in new tech tools. But this year, it’s...

I’m trying to get as creative as possible when it comes to being flexible with students. After finishing a few units ...

We need to think about what we’re asking students when we ask them to do homework.

What’s the point of English class?

My school will start remote learning this Monday, and everyone is scrambling to find the best and easiest tools to make life easier.

This is the hardest thing for any teacher. Take a very difficult and complicated topic and make it easy to understand.

If we want students to be lifelong learners and readers, we need to make reading as fun and painless as possible.

This is the magic of fiction. Depending on the story, the author must pick and choose what facts and thoughts the audience will know and not

This morning, as I listened to a song from Mikaela Davis, I thought, why not ask students to share their favorite song?

The podcast takes us back to oral epic poetry – it demands the mind’s attention just like a lengthy novel.

Over the years, I’ve discovered that there’s a fine line in the teaching of writing between convention and creativity.

It’s a good time to read and listen to poetry. It’s a very good time to write poetry.

I became a teacher to talk about literature, not to talk about grades and due dates and rubrics and expectations.

If we let them go out into the world believing that there is a disconnect between literature and all of the language that surrounds them, th

Faulkner heard stories from his family and then created a novel, a living map, from those stories.