During the last few weeks of school, I really sit back and listen.

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.

The teaching of writing is at the heart and soul of any English language arts classroom. We need to show each student how to weave an organi

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

ust as Austen imagined a world of romance determined by “age, character, and condition”, The Bachelor asks the same questions. It captures a

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

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

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

Creativity sometimes comes from conversations with people outside our field of study, but sometimes from people trying to tackle the same ex

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

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

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

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

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.