Tradition and Technology: The Art of Teaching
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
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Feb 24, 20202 min read
Literature, A Living Map
Faulkner heard stories from his family and then created a novel, a living map, from those stories.
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Feb 20, 20206 min read
Virginia Woolf, Wordsmith of the Universe
Why do I think Virginia Woolf is the greatest writer of all time? There are so many reasons.
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Jan 30, 20203 min read
Demonstrating Understanding with Creativity
There’s something amazing that happens in a class when you ask students to write creatively.
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Jan 21, 20203 min read
Opening the Unconscious
Every great piece of literature explores the inner workings of what the character doesn’t consciously know about their own desires and fears
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Jan 10, 20204 min read
Jane Austen and The Bachelor
ust as Austen imagined a world of romance determined by “age, character, and condition”, The Bachelor asks the same questions. It captures a
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Jan 8, 20204 min read
The Sounds of Literature
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
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Dec 28, 20194 min read
A Novel Way to Teach the Novel
Every English teacher works tirelessly to instill a love of reading in their students. We convince them that literature matters.
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Dec 19, 20193 min read
Why is Hamlet Great?
We’re wrapping up Hamlet this week, and it never ceases to amaze me how it stays relevant year after year.
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Dec 4, 20192 min read
The Power of Job-Embedded Professional Development
Creativity sometimes comes from conversations with people outside our field of study, but sometimes from people trying to tackle the same ex
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Nov 20, 20192 min read
Boundless Questions, Perpetual Questions
I often think about the importance of asking good, quality questions in class.
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Oct 30, 20194 min read
The Imaginary Reality of Technology and Fiction
More and more, the screen determines who we are, and not our relationships with real people.
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Oct 21, 20193 min read
Symbolism in Life and Literature
On the first day of class this year, I placed a rock on a desk in the middle of my classroom.
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Oct 15, 20191 min read
A New Approach to Professional Development
You just have to read the title and first few sentences from a recent article in Education Week to understand the potential of Teacher’s Wor
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Oct 13, 20194 min read
Literary Immersion
Immersion, however you define it, is the main objective of all art, and all living.
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Oct 9, 20193 min read
Literature and Free Will
My students, like many people, take free will for granted.
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Oct 8, 20192 min read
The Value of a Metaphor
The metaphor transforms the world by saying what isn’t.
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Oct 8, 20192 min read
Creativity and Collaboration
Unconscious mental processes, developed from years of prior experience, determine many decisions we make automatically, without deliberation
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