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I love the teachers in my Language Arts department.  Ever since I became department chair, they have been willing to go on so many curricular adventures with me.  If I ask to try a collaborative website, they are game.  If ...

So much is hearsay right now about the Common Core, it feels like the educational system has become a tabloid in their interpretation of what does not even exist yet.  In fact, from this level of speculation has sprouted a ...

I recently presented at the CATE conference to a great audience of enthusiastic teachers.  CATE, the California Association of Teachers of English, is a great organization with an amazingly supportive group whose heart beats with the love of the Writing ...

In celebration of The California Writing Project and Digital Learning Day, I was asked to write a post on some of what I'm doing with technology in the classroom.   So I decided to write about what I'm actually doing ...

Hey all, Guess what?  I'm going to be facilitating a class for Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach's Powerful Learning Practice.  The six-week course is on Project Based Writing, a strategic way to bring in authentic assessments and meaningful learning into any Language Arts program, ...

I've just recently posted a new article on my Edutopia blog, one that challenges teachers to try something new in their classroom for 30 days. As many of my readers know, my students are currently working on their Advocacy/Memoir ...

I’m currently prepping my classes for another research unit, this one a blend of Memoir, Advocacy, and Speech Writing. After all, never in real life are genres categorized. They blend together; and the Common Core assessments to come ...

I'm taking a class at Walden University right now, and a recent prompt asked us to identify a future technology. I took a moment to reflect on this country's current enthusiastic roll-out of Interactive Whiteboards, and why I feel ...

On Monday, Oct 17, I will be presenting a free webinar for my publisher, Eye On Education. You can register here. In it, I'll be sharing what I have learned about the upcoming Common Core standards and how they will ...

OK, so there they are: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. They are in your audience and have their checkbooks out looking for a new cause to fund. Will it be yours? So began my schpeel on writing an Executive ...