I recently polled our community on Instagram about the paper pile. Because let's face it, it's a huge part of an English teacher's life. How many papers will you assign? How will you grade them? When

This week, let’s talk about expanding students’ concepts of the world.  The other day I was talking to my husband in the car, as we drove through rainstorms and rainbows home to Slovakia from our holi

Welcome to the first episode of the author spotlight series here at Spark Creativity! In this series, youll hear from authors sharing their work directly into your classroom. Today were hearing fr

This week, I want to share the daily planning routine that is working better for me this year than anything Ive ever done. Figuring out how to approach time when it seems that there is never enough

Today on the podcast, we're sitting down with Abby Gross from Write on with Miss G, who has become known for her thriving reading program and the wonderful tools she has developed to support other tea

This week I want to talk about your work space and why it matters that you love it. Do you remember having a locker in middle school? Remember taping pictures all over the door, adding one of those re

There's nothing quite like knowing exactly what you're going to do on the first day back after break as you cruise into the winter vacation. Giving yourself that mental cushion means that maybe when y

This week I want to talk about the literary food truck project and why its time to try it if you havent yet! Since I designed this project many years ago, Ive heard from sooo many teachers about ho

Did you know that in Iceland they have a special holiday tradition called "Book Flood" on Christmas eve? People gift each other books, then relax and read them while drinking hot cocoa or eating holid

This week I want to talk what to do if you're trying to help your students take advantage of the benefits of sketchnotes but they're stuck. Were going to dig into a special video series by Sylvia Duc