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Mental Health Awareness: Writing as a Healthy Outlet
Mental health is just as important as our physical health, and many educators understand this. According to the National Institute of Mental Health,...
If you teach seniors, you probably spend time on writing strategies for the dreaded college essay. Jennifer Nash provides a way to lead into teaching the college essay that's more engaging than a practice essay.
10 YA Reads for Summer
I just finished my tenth year teaching high school English and let me tell you, teens like to read… well, most of them. Some of you might be doubting...
Mental Health Awareness: Mind Your Head
Juno Dawson is a prominent transgender activist and writer. Known for her fact-driven books, she focuses on topics teens wonder about or need to...
Developing Stamina in our Readers and Writers
How do I get my kids in reading and writing shape, so they can move forward? Here are 6 questions I am asking myself as I attempt to help students...
Creative Ways to Teach Vocabulary
Teaching vocabulary—integrated into a text or isolation can be tricky when it comes to thinking of engaging ways to create meaning. We fall back on...
ELA: Instagram Activity for Learning Vocabulary
For this activity, students are tasked with creating an Instagram post imagining that their assigned vocabulary word was a person posting on social...
Immigrant and Refugee Stories: Enrique's Journey
There’s something to be said about putting yourself in another person’s shoes. Even if those shoes will never fit perfectly, and you struggle to stay...
Real to Reel: Our Favorite Book-to-Screen Adaptations
For book lovers, it’s nothing new to read a good book and seek out the movie rendition, but for students, many seek out movies or TV shows and then...
Myth with a Side of Mashed Potatoes
Like most kids ushered though elementary school in the days when the Charlie Brown holiday specials aired on television once a year and if you missed...
Dates, Death, and Dybbuks—Oy vey!
Earlier this summer, my oldest son was making random conversation at dinner about the foolishness of dating aphorisms, like how you shouldn’t talk...
Using Immersive Reader as Part of a Close Reading Routine
One of the key shifts in English Language Arts classrooms is the move for students to engage routinely with complex text. To prepare students for the...
The Gift of the Math Guy
Before transitioning away from life as a public school educator, I worked as the academic trainer for English and social studies in a large, urban...