A Year of Reading

Anyone who knows me or reads this blog knows that I LOVED LOVED LOVED The Farmer and the Clown by Marla Frazee from the minute it was publi...

  photo via Unsplash The World Itself is Not Ponderous Feathers and giggles, monarch's first flight, petals unfurling, equinox light. Le...

Photo via Unsplash Winter Stars by Sara Teasdale I went out at night alone; The young blood flowing beyond the sea Seemed to have drenched ...

As I work with teachers across grade levels, many are thinking about how to build community and create a space that is safe and inviting for...

  image via Unsplash How to Be a Poet by Wendell Berry (to remind myself) i     Make a place to sit down.    Sit down. Be quiet.    You must...

The struggles of remote teaching and learning are real. Figuring out how to hold onto best practices with 29 students on a Zoom call is tric...

After reading Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi realized how much I don't know about history. So, I...

  image via Unsplash Dear Candy Corn,   Thank you for your jolt of too-much sweetness at the end of a too-long day that was packed with too-...

Even though 2020 has not been a great year, it has been a good year for middle grade books.  I am always on the lookout for books that would...

  One of my new routines for this year is link to the CNN10 news for the day in an open Google doc with a table where my scholars can add t...