Mentoring in the Middle: sixth grade
Fans of Percy Jackson will be happy with the  Rick Riordan Presents  series. Written about underrepresented cultures in literature, these...
How do you accommodate the needs of many different learners in your ELA class?  This year, there seems to be a greater distance between my s...
Ruta Sepetys takes little nuggets of history and turns them into powerfully told, hard-to-forget novels.   Fifteen year old Lina, her...
We all look for ways to keep kids reading, and in the upper elementary and middle school grades, the struggle is real.  Fortnite is hard...
Are you sometimes surprised a couple of months in to school, to discover that a student doesn't know another student's name?  I ...
Have you ever done something that you thought would help someone?  Only the thing you did went all wrong?  Maybe, because you hadn't ...