Save Me a Seat  is a lovely pairing of two authors, Sarah Weeks of So B. It  fame and Gita Varadarajan, a second-grade teacher who moved t...

We all look for ways to keep kids reading, and in the upper elementary and middle school grades, the struggle is real.  Fortnite is hard...

This book!   Kate Messner, you threw me a curve ball!   I was reading along, chuckling at some of the antics Charlie had gotten...

Are you sometimes surprised a couple of months in to school, to discover that a student doesn't know another student's name?  I ...

Let's be clear.  Breakfast is an important meal.  As teachers, if we don't get off to a good start, food-wise, it can have an impa...

Amal is a young girl growing up in the Punjabi province of Pakistan, in a town so small it doesn't even earn a dot on the map.  She is...

As a Reading teacher with a large library, I want to introduce students to my books, but I also want to start reading aloud to them.  Th...