Online Professional Development for Teachers

This week, I asked students to connect the literature we study in class to the modern world. We had amazing, open-ended conversations ...

After I taught the elective Filmmaking for the first time a few years ago, I realized how easy it is for students to quickly create a ...

There is no challenge quite like teaching Shakespeare. Early modern English always poses challenges for teenage readers, and ...

No, not that kind of drama. Performance. Few people know how to act, but everyone knows what a good performance looks like. The words...

Every year, I complete the final assignment that I give my seniors. I ask them to talk about how it feels to graduate, what they've...

It’s hard to imagine that anything positive will come out of this year, but I’ve been thinking about what, if any, lessons I’ve learned ...

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....

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...

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...

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

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...

Last week, I told my students to create sketchnotes on the poems we studied in class. I didn't really specify what I was looking for, I...

Under normal circumstances, we try to steer kids away from socializing so they can stay on task and so that we can give our assessments and

Right now, I’m keeping the focus on learning and not on assessment.

But instead of thinking about how sad and unfortunate we all are to be in our positions, I’m trying the best I can to think about how much b

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

We become open-minded when ideas find us, not when we find them.

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

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

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

More and more, the screen determines who we are, and not our relationships with real people.