This is not the first time that I have taught students how to blog. For many years, I had my tenth-grade students create blogs for their...

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...

I'm covering a class right now. Web Design. Students have just started to explore blogs as a means of writing for an authentic audienc...

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...

Flickr Creative Commons image by LMAP I am a cry baby. Always have been. My younger sister would sneak in to steal a toy, and I would cr...

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

It began with a tweet. A student in my tenth grade English class researched running injuries for her recent #HavPassion independent inqui...

I am jovial. I wear my heart on my sleeve, as the idiom goes. Teachers and students playfully tease me that I cackle. Yup, like a witch. B...

My high school classroom, like my teaching, has undergone quite a few changes in the past few years.  As I have incorporated aspects of flip...

Moments Like This Electric Energy runs shoulder to fingertip When I wrap my arms around her Proud. I gather This moment in my memo...

A week ago I shared a bit about the  20% Time Research Projects  that my tenth grade students are putting together.  One day each week, abou...

Thank you! Students, staff, and families of HHS raised $650 in one week to support the work ShelterBox  is doing in the Philippines to ...

It took awhile. After teaching nearly 500 students how to write " This I Believe " essays, I finally got off my procrastinating hi...

I haven't yet had a chance to read Eric Greenberg's Generation We: How Millennial Youth Are Taking Over America and Changing Our Wor...

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 ...

My students are currently finishing up Bryce Courtenay’s The Power of One , the story of an English boy growing up in apartheid South Africa...

Every day is different. It’s what I love about teaching. Even though I’ve taught the same tenth grade World Literatures course for the las...

In the last 24 hours, I’ve been beat over the head with a call for change. Last night I went and saw Michael Moore’s new documentary Sicko ....