It’s Not Too Late to Celebrate Black History Month!

My plays often make return appearances in Scholastic’s Storyworks magazine, such as The Daring Escape of Henry “Box” Brown this … More

Pairing Picture Books & Plays for Black History Month

The Common Core requires that we teach students to “evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event … More

New Plays and Product Updates

TeachersPayTeachers has grown immensely over the last decade. Back when I first started using it as a secondary market for … More

Perhaps the Most Important Thing You’ll Teach This Year

It’s not my aim to be political, but no matter one’s affiliation, it’s hard to deny that racial tension has … More

Teaching Grit & Resilience

Some of my colleagues were complaining recently that kids today don’t have much in the way of grit, meaning that … More

So You Want to Be President?

Ah, politics. Everywhere you turn, folks are questioning the qualifications and competencies of each of the current candidates for the … More

Act Aloud Plays

That you’re visiting my blog tells me you’re most likely already a fan of reader’s theater, so I needn’t tell … More

Why You Should Teach Baseball on April 15th

The Major League Baseball season is underway, which seems a trivial point in the broad scheme of academics. Yet were … More

Ten Plays for Black History Month

The Daring Escape of Henry “Box” Brown is making a reappearance in the January issue of Scholastic’s Storyworks magazine. In … More

Grades: Who Needs ’em?

How do you grade a play? I read an article recently about the merits of “gradelessness” in the classroom. It … More