By far, the top question I’ve been asked this week is how to turn a PDF worksheet into an interactive…
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Around here, mid-January means prepping for 20Time, a spring semester project-based learning experience designed to bring real-world application to English/language…
Learning from Famous Failures
Now that I’m on the other side of 40, the value of failure is obvious. Although painful at the time,…
FREE Media Literacy Worksheets
Last week, Stanford researchers released a “bleak” report showing that more than 80 percent of students can’t determine the difference…
Creation Station Rotation
In the Venn diagram of my life, my “Mom” and “English teacher” lives overlapped beautifully this week when my daughter’s…
Vote With Your Feet
Yesterday’s EdCamp “unconference” left me with a notebook full of ideas and a brain that needs to marinate awhile to…
20Time Project – Update #3
This post is part of an occasional series documenting my entry into project-based learning. This semester, my students will participate…
20Time Project – Update #1
This post is part of an occasional series documenting my entry into project-based learning. This semester, my freshmen will participate…
The Question I Hate the Most
How to make my blood boil: Imagine we’ve just had an intensely wonderful class discussion on a weighty topic. I…