OMG! How did I end up on the Daily Beast ?! Okay, not really. My hair is longer. But those glasses are spot on. Seriously though, when...

view from my window this morning Ordinarily, if there's even a whiff of snow in the forecast, my boys and I have spoons nestled unde...

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...

It's quiet.  Occasionally I hear the plastic crinkle of a plastic-encased library book as a student flips the page.  Brad is engrossed i...

The only sound in my room at the moment is the crisp clicky-clack of 224 fingertips typing.  And then Cheyenne can't contain herself a...

I'm bummed. The last couple of mornings I have rolled out of bed with a headache and sinus pressure, my second big cold of the winter se...

Wild winds whipped across the mitten state on Wednesday.  By 10:30 in the morning, I had received a text message and email that my sons...

I've fallen off the blogging wagon.  This month I am participating in the Two Writing Teachers Slice of Life blogging challenge . Eac...

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...

By 8:00 this morning, already 30 students and staff had voted, and our poll had only been open for 15 minutes.  There is a buzz about book...

It's the first day of March, and in addition to being the start of our March Book Madness challenge , it also marks the start of the ...

Today is World Poetry Day , which falls each year on the cusp of our National Poetry Month celebration during the month of April. I love...

No, I haven't been asked to keynote a conference. However, after attending Todd Bloch and Heather Gauck 's session titled " Fi...

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

March begins with a stutter start. For the second week in a row, I will likely be out of school for multiple days. Last week, under a wet ...

Ingredients: Pull open the curtains and let the sun slip in slowly, casting warm blankets across the living room floor as you snuggle dee...