"Never really thought much about Alabama's red dirt roads, but now, all I can think about is kicking up their dust.  I miss the hot...

I love books!  I love reading them and I especially love introducing students to them.   So it should come as no surprise that I enjoy makin...

Whether you are in your classroom with strategically placed desks or teaching remotely this Fall, a tool you're going to want to take ad...

Middle School and High School teachers:  this is one of my favorite books.  I could not put it down! This book fictionalizes a real ev...

Historical fiction is sometimes a tough sell for upper elementary students.  It's not that they don't like the ideas, it'...

I love read-aloud time in my classroom.  It's one of my favorite things to do.  This is time for kids to sit back and listen to good ...

Have you ever done something that you thought would help someone?  Only the thing you did went all wrong?  Maybe, because you hadn't ...

If you could make yourself over - starting from scratch - what would you change about yourself? That's the underlying premise of...

Way, way, way back in the day when I was in first grade, we switched seats one day and I was placed next to Michael.  Michael had polio, ...

When students explain why they don't like historical fiction, they usually say something like, "It doesn't grab me in the...