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A New Year Gift for You, Teacher Friend!
Let’s get 2020 started with a free print-and-teach worksheet designed to increase student motivation and help our teens think meaningfully
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Let’s get 2020 started with a free print-and-teach worksheet designed to increase student motivation and help our teens think meaningfully
Working with middle school writers at our library this summer, I’ve found a few storytelling tools that are too awesome
A few years back, I noticed something weird – kids sometimes, maybe even often, learned more when I did less. One
Twelve (very long) weeks ago, I announced that I’d spend this spring semester creating a completed work of fiction to
Each spring, I launch a project-based learning experience that encourages students to pursue a project of personal interest. Folks have
What if every teacher had the right tools to do this job? What if we all had a hard drive
The man who created Roget’s Thesaurus, Peter Mark Roget, was born on January 18, 1779, a date loquacious scholars celebrate
When my freshmen strike these words from their literary analysis writing, they (miraculously!) start to sound like young adults.
This week’s drop of awesome comes from Cam Milleson, the blog’s middle school teacher friend in Kernville, California. Cam’s kids are
This week, I’m continuing the occasional “How to Write” series with a look at the power of an essay’s conclusion.