Professional Development for Secondary ELA Teachers

A few years ago, I was the advisor for my school’s student-run art gallery. My district converted an old garage used for storage space ...

We’re finishing up a unit on Exit West by Mohsin Hamid this week so I’m asking my students to listen to a personal narrative of choice....

I start the school year with a conversation about the value of literature, so I like to end by giving my students the opportunity to bring w

Sometimes I like to complete the essay that I assign my students. In this case, I assigned a reflection on the last year. I also wanted...

A lot of what we deal with in English language arts relates to strangers, people we don’t know. We read novels and non-fiction to immerse...

My colleagues and I recently had a conversation about the rest of the year and what we could do to keep our students engaged....

I attended the virtual NCTE conference this past Friday and it got me thinking about the research paper, or really, rethinking it. Part...

If there’s one thing virtual teaching has taught me, it’s that less is more.

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

Reading literature out loud to my students is one of my favorite things about teaching. It reminds me of when I was a child, and my mother w

We’re wrapping up Hamlet this week, and it never ceases to amaze me how it stays relevant year after year.