Summer is a time of reflection for me: I think about what went well over the past year and about…
Making Time to Read: All the Things I Don’t Do
The question I probably get asked most often, right after, “Wow–12th grade. How do you do that?” and “How can…
9 Tips to Help You Stay in Your Teaching Career
The statistics for teachers are glum: over 50 percent of teachers quit in their first five years. Now, I realize…
Books I Have Read This School Year (and would actually recommend): Nonfiction
Continuing with my recommendations from books read this school year, here are some of the nonfiction titles I enjoyed: Tiger,…
Books I Have Read This School Year (and would actually recommend): Fiction
This school year I read 44 books (in addition to the literature that I normally teach). However, I’m not going…
Teach It Slant 