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Author Q&A with Timm Freitas
Want to learn more about author and Garden of English creator Timm Freitas? Tune into our new Author Q&A series! Learn who inspired to become a...
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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...
Mental Health Awareness: Yolk
In Yolk, author Mary H.K. Choi portrays a pair of estranged sisters. They’ve grown apart following their childhood in Texas, and now both live in New...
Mental Health Awareness: All the Bright Places
You know those books that you hug at the end? This is one of those books. All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven is just plain good—heartbreaking,...
Mental Health Awareness Month: You'd Be Home Now
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s also the last full month of school for traditionally-scheduled districts. I think mental health is the...
Inaugural Poetry Discoveries
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Like lots of others, I didn’t discover Amanda Gorman until she graced the country with, well, her grace, her presence, and her poetry at the...
Alternative Grading Methods for ELA Teachers
Most of the time, grading a stack of essays feels like shoveling a pile of smoke for the weekend. Not only are traditional grading methods time...
Rock Star Poets
The “Greatest Hits” album. All the greats do it—Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom Petty, Elton John, Madonna, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mariah Carey—so it only...
Aggressively Poetic
Leaves caked my front yard, suffocating the burgeoning grass below as I sat on the couch and told myself only one more episode of Law & Order and...
Dead White Poets Society
Scads of English teachers have shown the movie Dead Poets Society in class to either begin their poetry unit or to try and inspire an appreciation...