Balancing Round Stones

On the first day after the end of the school year, I wake up with the residual anxiety that there are tasks left undone and things left unsa...

Over the last couple of weeks, my students took the new state test, a test only in its second year of implementation and which the state is ...

 “Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which lo...

In anticipation of the state test coming  up in April, I've spent some time over the last couple of weeks teaching my students how to wr...

It's the week before Christmas break, and everyone's tired. The kids are restless and unfocused...except for the eighth graders in m...

"We read to know we are not alone."   - C.S. Lewis At the end of last school year, a parent emailed the seventh grade English te...

I work in a germ factory, and the bugs got busy early this year. Watching students sneeze on their desks all day makes me cringe. I instinct...