I don't yell. Okay, if you ask my own children, they might tell you something different, but when it comes to my classroom, you'll...

This coming Friday will be my seniors last day submitting articles to our  online school newspaper , last day of standing up to present sp...

Monday marks the beginning of Teacher Appreciation Week, May 4-8, 2015 .  I love the initiative started by the Center for Teaching Quality...

Today's the day. March 1st kicks off the month-long blogging challenge hosted by the Two Writing Teachers blog . I participated last y...

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...

My English department is undergoing quite a bit of change in order to accomodate the reality of state testing in the era of Common Core ...

On Friday afternoon, I had the opportunity to join both lower and upper school teachers from Penn Charter School in Philadelphia to discuss ...

In preparation for my upcoming PA Writing and Literature Project summer course for teachers on writing with 2.0 technologies, I read Jona...

A friend and fellow teacher recently asked if he could ask me a few questions about my classroom management style for a graduate course in e...

So all my plans for my maternity leave this past school year are still just that...plans. I wanted to update my resume. Update my blog. Upda...

Said so much better than I ever could, Sarah Kay expresses why I am passionate about teaching high school writers. We all have stories to te...

Teaching is about helping students become more than just book learners. It is guiding them to be life learners. And that means that teachers...

Before becoming a parent, I naively thought that my experiences as a teacher would help me as a mother. Come to find out, it was really the ...

I keep running into Marc Prensky. Not literally, of course, but filed away are various photocopies of his articles passed my way by well int...

I avoid conflict. I withdraw from situations where I am asked to stand apart from my peers. I am much more content to quietly lead by examp...

It all started with Billy Collins’ poem “Introduction to Poetry.” I read the poem to my third block class, and then asked them to spend a ...

It’s been that day. You know the one. The day that you trek two bags of grading into school and three bags back out at the end of the day. ...