A Year of Reading

What a week. But also -- what a week in poetry. On Tuesday, as I drove towards the beginning of the second half of the grand experiment know...

Yesterday, I couldn't get anything accomplished. I spent the day horrified and angry by the events of the day. Just weeks after two m...

Room on our Rock by Kate and Jol Temple illustrated by Terri Rose Baynton Kane Miller Books, 2019 This picture book is a reverso...

Unsplash photo by Andy Mai These Days (a found poem) These days, far too many whom we have admired have proven to be...

Like many teachers across the country, I am struggling to figure out what I can do in my classroom that will lay one small part of th...

The events of the past several weeks have been heartbreaking and overwhelming. My social media feeds are filled with posts and reading...

" We don’t serve only our own children. We don’t serve the children of 1950. We don’t serve the children of some imaginary land where...

Recently, I wrote about the controversy over the book A Fine Dessert. There was a lot to think about if you followed the conversation, a...