I always find that the month of March presents the extra special problem of the brackets. I am constantly finding them around the room and in the halls; discussion around the school amongst the students centers around who has the best bracket. This year, I wanted to find a way Read more…
By Dustin Hixenbaugh Attending this year’s NCTE Convention are a number of ELA celebrities (Sherman Alexie! Jacqueline Woodson! Jason Reynolds!) that I’d love to run into and snap a selfie with while we’re all standing in line for the water fountain. But the famous person I’m most looking forward to Read more…
By Connie Colvin Today is September 11th and I’m thinking about Maya Angelou’s beautiful poem “Human Family.” I had heard this poem several times before, even in an iPhone commercial, but it came to me in a transformative way last October in a group e-mail from Andy Patrick, a Read more…
I’ll admit—at first I was a bit skeptical. When we received word last school year that Berkeley County high schools were going to be reading The Crossover as a county One Book event, I was not immediately sold.