Do me a favor and, right now,  I want you to sit back and imagine yourself in your last school professional development session or faculty

Do you ever find yourself wishing that your ELA lessons could be just a bit more fun and engaging to your students?  Do you then

Over the course of my career as an ELA teacher and instructional coach, I have heard, time and time again, this great debate among writing

I’m a bad writer, so I can’t teach writing.  There’s not enough time in my curriculum to truly teach how to write.  My students just

What if there are things you do in your classroom, every day, that you should be doing differently? And what if you don’t even realize

Talking to Tara today was so much fun because she is a writing teacher who doesn’t just want the confidence to teach a clear writing

When veteran teacher, Sarah, described her writing instruction, she admitted that it was pieced together, sometimes spur-of-the-moment, and not always as cohesive as she wanted

Sometimes, one small decision can have a ripple effect that completely changes your life.  For Amy, an experienced eighth grade ELA teacher, signing up for

“I need to do something.”  Those were Jessica’s exact words partway through her first year of teaching high school ELA. Like many first year teaching

Is anyone out there feeling like a “bad teacher”? You can admit it. Seriously.   Because I’m here to tell you that every SINGLE teacher has