Dear Seniors, Welcome to Thrilling Uncertainty

Welcome to your final year of free public education. Let’s stop and think about that statement, actually. Free public education.…

Summer Reading 2014: Books for Well-Being

Over the past months, as part of my mid-career self-reflection and as part of my refusal to fall prey to the…

This summer has been filled with meeting lots of great writing teachers, home projects, visiting with family, and many, many…

My students like to complain that literature is full of hidden meanings that they just can’t seem to get. Many…

Perhaps there is a literature teacher out there who has only students who read all the assigned material prior to…