How to Celebrate the Moon Landing’s 50th Anniversary

I was seven years old when the Apollo 11 mission blasted off for the moon in mid-July of 1969. I…

We Are Taxi Drivers

Ever notice how determined Uber and Lyft are to develop autonomous cars? After replacing taxi drivers with contract laborers (many…

I have a theory about Walt Disney. Disney, of course, is known for animation. Way back in 1928—almost a century…

1. Don’t! Ignore that cough. Cancel that meeting. Show up to class with a box of Kleenex and a bottle…

Here are ten great paired texts with which to recognize black history month while meeting numerous Language Arts standards. All…

One of the things I find fascinating—and disturbing—about photos from the Civil Rights era are the faces in the crowd.…

Celebrate Martin Luther King’s legacy and teach his core values with any of a number of plays available on my…

That last week before Christmas vacation can be a real doozy. While thoughts of sugar plums may not derail that…

I’ve just released a new reader’s theater play script. I put it together early in the summer but have waited…

In honor of Labor Day, the Washington Post published an excellent feature on Lewis Hine, whose photography a century ago…