At this point, we are a couple of days into social distancing and staying at home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Michigan schools,...

For a few weeks now, Karter has been getting up earlier and earlier.  He'll wake at 3 AM and drive 40 minutes to the farm. He's help...

I love how chatty they are when they come back into the common area at Green Acres Assisted Living facility. My Public Speaking students p...

Regular readers will recognize that I'm relatively new to the Project-Based Learning (PBL) method of inquiry outlined by BIE , but not n...

Emma Marris's recent TED Summit talk has me dipping back into Richard Louv's The Last Child in the Woods . I remember reading an...

I love these conference connections! I am presenting at the Michigan Google Summit today at Lake Fenton High School on both teaching wi...

I'll admit it. I'm guilty. I'm a chronic over-planner. Each class period starts with our opening routines and check-in, revi...

It is our first full day at the TED Summit in Banff. Our group of 30 TED Innovative Educators (TIEs)  from around the world is pitching o...

We've been talking about passion in my high school English classes for the past two weeks. No, not quite like that. Much like the...

I've had the opportunity to connect with Spring Lake teacher David Theune and his student Elise McGannon at a number of conferences ar...

It started as a conversation in my tenth grade English class last semester. We were studying The Crucible and discussing how it applied t...

Snow day #7. This time, I have the house to myself. My boys had a two-hour delay this morning, so after scuttling them out the door, I par...

It started as a conversation at the Michigan Council of Teachers of English Fall Conference just a few months ago. Dr. Jeffrey Wilhelm wa...

Photo by Billy Krakower as we took our morning brain break at #TCT15 This past Friday, as teachers from all over the world started pac...