Let's talk about dystopia book clubs, a compelling unit option for ELA. I taught my first dystopian fiction, 1984, to tenth graders in Bulgaria. They had very strong reactions to the way Orwell por

On this weeks mini-episode, Id like to challenge you to get your students set up on Canva and help them get comfortable on the platform with a simple assignment that will give you a great fall displ

Video is everywhere in communication these days, including on Reels, TikTok, and Youtube, where our students are. Building creative video projects into ELA can help leverage students' interests in the

On this weeks mini-episode, lets talk about how to build an audio assignment in early in the year without feeling intimidated. Maybe you joined me for Camp Creative last summer and youve got alllll

We moved this month, and it wasnt one of your quick moves. We did one of those once, from one cabin to the one next door, carrying our furniture and baskets of stuff across a soon well-worn path th

On this weeks mini-episode, I want to talk about learning names, and my easy trick for mastery. It took me many years, but finally, after a year in which I had a Kalina, Karina, Ekaterina, and Katrin

Jason Reynolds' headline reads "Here's What I Do: Not Write Boring books." How great is that? As with everything he does, he seems to be speaking directly to the young people he's always trying to re

On this weeks mini-episode, Im sharing the coolest discussion warm-up Ive ever learned, which I picked up at the Exeter Humanities Institute one week after my first year of teaching and the same we

The first time I really understood what flow meant I was barefoot in salty sand, building a beach sculpture in Mexico alone in the sunshine. Two hours seemed to disappear in moments as I gathered w

On this weeks mini-episode, I want to give my answer to a question I see all the time in our Facebook community, Creative High School English, and its this: Whats the best way to spend a teacher b