Professional Development for High School English Teachers

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.

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

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.

Why do I think Virginia Woolf is the greatest writer of all time? There are so many reasons.

There’s something amazing that happens in a class when you ask students to write creatively.

Every great piece of literature explores the inner workings of what the character doesn’t consciously know about their own desires and fears

Every English teacher works tirelessly to instill a love of reading in their students. We convince them that literature matters.

I often think about the importance of asking good, quality questions in class.

On the first day of class this year, I placed a rock on a desk in the middle of my classroom.

Immersion, however you define it, is the main objective of all art, and all living.

My students, like many people, take free will for granted.

The metaphor transforms the world by saying what isn’t.