I often think of words and how casually we use them. How we open our mouths and respond like an instinct, never mind all that's really...

Instead of writing a typical reader’s response, I want to try out some of Chavez's writing prompts. I think she would encourage this...

As I began to read Felicia Rose Chavez’s The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop, I feel humbled as a white person, but as a human being I feel...

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This is not going to be a love letter to Jim Burke. This is not going to be a love letter to Jim Burke. Okay, now that that is out of the...

If you asked me to write down the words I associate with design, my list would probably go a little like this: fashion, create, product,...

The need for play in the ELA classroom has become increasingly necessary. Standards are our guides, but our focus and goals extend beyond...

A large part of differentiation is being able to let go of what we want to do, and recognizing the students in front of us. The other...

As I have seen the senioritis settling across our on-level Brit lit classroom like dust, I welcomed this challenge. Senioritis gets a bad...

Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower is a book about the here and now. Written in the 1990s, the story is set in America in the 2020's...

I have been working with a group of brilliantly fabulous (or fabulously brilliant) juniors and seniors this semester. My honors American...