Tip:  Our students need to see themselves and their classmates in books.  The ones below are excellent for stretching us all to be more incl...

Teachers everywhere are staggering away from their home offices after these last three months of school. Remote learning Remote teachin...

1.  When I left my office that beautiful spring day, I had no idea what was in store for me .  When we left school on that sort-of spri...

Some years ago, I had a sixth-grader I’m calling "Mikey" in my homeroom who came with a reputation for being quite a liar. He w...

These three books...each one so different from the other...and yet, the resourcefulness and persistence each protagonist shows in her cir...

There are so many books I want to talk about, but I don't know if I have the energy to write about new books right now.  I have so many...

Almost a month into distance learning and I'm still learning what my students can and can't do.  Last week, I found myself like this...

"I finished my book and I don't have anything else good to read."  "I don't know what to read next." Now that...

Are you feeling like this with distance learning? Only there are so many "things" that you don't know where to turn? U...

Have you been using Zoom this week to talk with your colleagues and your students?  I know I have, to the point where I realize that some da...