Blog Posts for Teaching English

So, you’re teaching horror stories, but you don’t want to do the same, boring unit that everyone else does? You want your students to be engaged, creative, but to also…

As I’m writing this, I’m wrapping up my second week of hybrid teaching. For me, that means that I have about half of my class in-person and half of my…

I don’t know about you, but I freakin’ love Halloween! In high school, however, incorporating the spooktacular spirit can be tricky. Anything that doesn’t enrich or supplement the mandated curriculum…

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett is a hauntingly beautiful dystopian story about female relationships, societal expectations, and rebellion that needs to be added to your classroom library.

After years of creating, marketing, and growing a platform on TPT, I have tried a lot of different methods and tools. I believe that there is one most important tool…

When I was a first-year high school English teacher, I had no idea where to even begin planning and getting ready for my first year. It probably took me a…

More and more educators are realizing that the time to have difficult conversations in our classrooms is now. In case you're just starting to Black Lives Matter unit, here are…

So when I walked into an incredibly diverse Title 1 school on my first day of teaching, I was completely unprepared. This job has forced me to really look inward,…

Slay by Brittney Morris is a groundbreaking novel in many ways. Morris has found a way to merge difficult racial conversations with the world of online video games. These two…