Great Reader’s Theater for Back to School

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

How to Create a Library Culture

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

Seven years ago I assigned my fifth grade class a task called Letter to Myself at Graduation. “I want your … More

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

While digging around for something to write about this week I stumbled upon a transcript from a pretty cool podcast … More

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

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

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

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

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