I’m sure you can all relate to a feeling that Alexa so openly shared with me today. Sometimes, as teachers, we find ourselves in a

There is no doubt about it–Valentine’s Day is one of the craziest days in a middle school classroom. Hormones and red carnations fly, and I

Today’s episode is for every teacher who, midday, looks at their desk, to-do list, turn-in bins, whiteboard, and bulletin boards and thinks: how am I

Can you name a single teacher who doesn’t wish they could spend less time planning? Yeah… I didn’t think so. Honestly, who wants to be

Are you like me? Do you have a teacher from your past who, to this day, remains vivid in your mind? Whose classroom you can

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

Learn how to take your literary analysis instruction and your students’ writing results to the next level by joining us for our FREE LIVE TRAINING! *Please

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