Tip:  There are so many things to like about Dry by Neal Shusterman, and if heart-pounding action is what you're looking for, it's...

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Do you enjoy history?  I get fascinated imagining how people, back in the day, did the things they did with the tools they had.  Do you?  I ...

It's embarrassing to admit:  How many times did I wish that elementary teachers had "just done their jobs" and taught students...

  Something caught my eye when I saw her.   With her hair parted on one side and her mouth open, that girl could have been me.  I wasn't...

"I hated it when you made me read last year.  But then, when we went to remote learning in the spring and over the summer, I got bored ...

When your students are excitedly chattering about what they're working on.   When they make things with stuff they've found arou...