Everything You Need to Know to Teach Expository Writing
Confession: for most of our careers, we didn’t really know what “expository writing” meant, why it mattered as much as…
In the Classroom
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11 Glamour-Filled Independent Reading Books for Teens
A quick scroll through the weekend New York Times headlines tells us that Americans tend to be fairly obsessed with…
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Teacher Organization: It’s Possible with These Strategies
Picture this: the teacher down the hall has an emergency, so you go into her classroom to make sure it’s…
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High School Homework: Rethinking the Traditional Philosophy
Talk about fortuitous timing. Right around the same time we sat down to compose this post, California made headlines for…
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Tools to Teach Essay Writing: An Argument Essay Outline
If you asked us to choose the most important thing to cover in an ELA class, we’d probably choose argumentative…
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50 Excellent Middle School Books to Recommend on First Chapter Friday
Middle school teachers, we didn’t realize how hard you have it. Of course, we knew teaching middle school required a…
