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,...

Wow!  What a week this has been.  Things have been moving very quickly, and in my Michigan school district, we suddenly find ourselves out o...

I've got books on the brain. During the second week of class, when not everyone in our tenth grade English class knows each other we...

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

It is Thursday, and the week isn't even over, but I'm confident in saying that this may just be one of my best weeks ever! Please ...

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...

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...

The Crucible has gotten contentious. I'm two months into my new teaching position, and my 10th grade honors American literature stude...

If you've been following my blog recently, you'll know that I've become obsessed with ThingLink as a creative curation tool. I h...

I'm just starting my first online graduate course for a grade. I've participated in MOOCs but not for graduate credit. This class, a...

Image from Pecha Kucha The basic premise of the 20% Time Project is that it is student-driven, passion-based learning. The idea gained t...