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,...

I had an opportunity to participate in a panel discussion about the impact of social media in education this morning on the campus of the ...

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...

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'm beyond thrilled! I recently learned that I was one of 30 teachers selected to participate in the second cohort of the TED-Ed Innovat...

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...

I love how easy ThingLink makes it to both share resources and also collaborate with others to build a resource. At the start of my current...

Vivi's poem will rest under the horizon I love getting hands-on with literature. My creative writing students are currently taking t...

My tenth grade English students just finished up their independent reading projects, but I didn't have them create just another boring b...

The excitement over our March Book Madness bracket is growing.  This past week as our school community voted on books in the initial bracke...

It arrived today. I went down to check my school mailbox during my lunch period, and there it was. A big white envelop addressed to me...f...

I have too many blog posts in me! So right off the bat, know that this post is almost more of a reminder to me of all the things that I want...