This week, I want to talk about Sunday nights. If you’re struggling to figure out how you can be a good partner, parent, person, and teacher, and it all seems to come to a head on Sunday nights, I wan

Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O'Neill get plenty of spotlight on the ELA curriculum stage. And sure, it's well-deserved! But they aren't the only incredible American playwrights to pic

This week I want to share a fabulous resource I recently discovered, a website full of short video models for acting games you can use in class. The first time I taught a play in class, I sure wished

My son and I love a few certain characters from the books we've read aloud over the years. Gum-Baby, from Tristan Strong, Boots, from Gregor the Overlander, Maniac Magee. For my daughter, it's Junie B

Grading discussion can feel like juggling cats. How can you be present in a class discussion while also trying to grade thirty peoples comments? But over the years, Ive tried three methods that that

Weve all been in a discussion hurtling off the track and into the canyon, far, far below. Chances are, youve been in this type of discussion as a student AND as a teacher, and its no fun in either

Remember in elementary school, how some kids were so excited to answer a question that they would wave their hand back and forth in the air, lifting ever so slightly from their seat? The Hermione Gran

Welcome back to our ongoing discussion series. If you missed the first two episodes, covering and , you might want to pause and go back to the last two episodes before continuing with this one. Tod

Today were talking about a model that influenced every discussion I ran in my classroom from my first year to my last, across grade levels, years, and countries. Ive run hundreds of Harkness discuss

Discussion. Theoretically its the bread and butter of the English classroom, but sometimes it feels like all crusts and crumbs. How can you get students excited to talk about voice and theme, metap