Celebrate Our Unsung Heroes

In case you weren’t aware, March was Women’s History Month. Celebrating the contributions of women to history, though, needn’t be … More

Reader’s Theater for Presidents’ Day

Here are two plays in one package with which to celebrate and teach about Presidents’ Day. The first, President’s Day … More

In addition to all the MLK plays featured in my last post, here’s more great reader’s theater for Black History … More

Whether for RT or stage performance, here are half-a-dozen kid-friendly scripts to ramp up your MLK Day celebrations and Black … More

My class of fifth graders staged a nifty trio of plays recently. Eric paced about the stage as the insanely … More

Before you crack those text books or assign that homework reading, how about blasting away all that summer slog with … More

One of the greatest things my mother ever did for me was regularly take me to the public library when … More

“Talk Like a Russian Day” was a big hit in my classroom. Though it coincided with certain political events, there … More

The Major League Baseball season’s Spring Training is underway, which seems a trivial point in the broad scheme of academics. … More

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