I have been incredibly fortunate this school year to host a number of speakers and writers in my classroom. The opportunity for students to ...

When I first describe our #HavPassion research project to students, I get this quizzical look. "I can research anything? Really?"...

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...

We're deep into poetry.  My creative writing students have played with pantoums and rolled around in ovillenjos. We've explored b...

Just before Thanksgiving break, my tenth grade students opened up Blogger and started to design their first blogs. Well, now we are up and r...

I'm taking up Jeremy Hyler's weekly NWP iAnthology prompt today:   "Share a lesson that failed, a student, a piece of writing...

We could use your help! We've mapped our passion and identified our inquiry questions. We've located mentor texts and started out...