View Cart
Immigrant and Refugee Stories: Ink Knows No Borders
Poetry offers a creative outlet for writers to explore their emotions, experiences, and dreams for the future. It offers extraordinary literary...
A community-driven blog providing resources for educators, by educators.
ELA (8)
Immigrant and Refugee Stories Month: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Something I think students with siblings might be able to relate to is competing with each other to please their parents or be the best. In some...
Immigrant and Refugee Stories Month: American Street
The best part of my job is the gift of diversity and the stories I get to prompt students to produce in a creative way through narratives, short...
That's the Tweet
-1.png?width=30&name=MicrosoftTeams-image%20(7)-1.png){kind=small}
There’s a trend on Twitter where users make a simple statement followed by the catch phrase “That’s it. That’s the tweet.”
Cheers to Stolen Memories
Way back in the day, we had this thing called Must See TV. And one of the shows you had to “must-see” was Cheers. Set in a bar in Boston, the show...
Catfish in Space?
For some bizarre reason, I’ve recently gotten into the MTV show Catfish. Basically, it’s a documentary show where the hosts help people track down...
Keurig Confessions—Love the Machine, or Else…
About three weeks ago, my Keurig died halfway through brewing my morning cup of This Is My Only Reason For Living. Weeping, lamenting, and the...
Science Fiction for Dummies (or Dilettantes)
For me, science fiction boils down to whether you’re a galaxy far, far away person or a space, the final frontier person.
#Neveragain—No, Really
From San Antonio, you take I-35 S until you hit Hwy. 90W just outside of the city limits. You’ll then hit Castroville, which everyone pronounces...
Mental Health Awareness: Parachutes
It’s not a secret that people compare American schools with other countries’ schools, and Chinese schools are known as some of the strictest in terms...