When Your Character Gets Questioned

What can you do when your character gets questioned but you’re unable to defend yourself? In my new play in … More

Common Core Wearing on Ya Yet?

Like most of you, the start of the new school year has left me scrambling to keep up. Fortunately, Read … More

“Johnny” has a big personality. Though it sometimes gets him in trouble, it translates well to the stage. While playing … More

I’m willing to admit to a high degree of frustration when it comes to standardized testing. In fact, during the … More

I think much of what I know about teaching, about kids, about life itself, I learned from Spanky and Our … More

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

Okay, that’s not a squirrel, but a mongoose, as in Rikki Tikki Tavi from The Jungle Book. My students are … More

After announcing the approach of my first grandchild via Facebook, I received a message from a former student thanking me … More

If you’ve never heard one of your students attempt a southern accent you must give Box Brown’s Freedom Crate a … More

How engaging are read aloud plays? Consider this bit of anecdotal evidence: In December my students were working on my … More