True confessions: this time of year was the hardest for me as a teacher.  I was tired of grey, cloudy days, it felt like spring would never ...

A Poem for teachers too, perhaps? I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive....

Stealing is bad. Yeah. I know. But my brother Levi is always so sick, and his medicine is always so expensive. I didn’t think anyone would n...

One of my favorite activities to do when teaching point of view, is to have students take the book they're reading and rewrite a section...