After the-year-that-must-not-be-named, I knew I needed a reset in the productivity department. I wasn’t hard on myself for being unproductive…
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ELA Thanksgiving Activities for Middle School and High School
While practicing gratitude is an important value in my life, for personal reasons, Thanksgiving has never been my favorite. In…
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Meaningful & Fun Activities for Teaching Beowulf
The best prank I ever pulled on my high school seniors was to convince them we were reading an Old…
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Keeping the Wonder: A Professional Development Book for Teachers
Those of you who follow me on Instagram know that I’ve spent the last two years writing a professional development…
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How to do a Diverse ELA Curriculum Audit
In the summer of 2020, I did a curriculum audit to reflect upon which voices in literature were being amplified…
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How to plan a podcast unit for middle school and high school
In some ELA circles I’m known as The Podcast Queen. Though I’m not sure where it started, I theorize that…
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