Receiving the Classroom Library Grant was the start of something really exciting for me: Getting to see my students’ excitement over fresh, new books...
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I believe, wholeheartedly, that access is one of the key elements of getting kids to read. But it’s more than just physical access that they need. The...
American author Garrison Keilor once said, “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” For these purposes, I would like to provide an...
My first year of teaching has been filled with memorable moments. The year is only halfway over, but I’ve already experienced joyful moments, stressful...
2022 held many changes for me and my career. One of the biggest by far was switching from teaching senior level English at a large public high school in...
The English classroom should be a welcoming place of acceptance and opportunity. The types of books available in a classroom library help set the tone of...
I thought I had a lot of books coming into my first year of teaching. However, after eagerly assembling them on the single shelf in my classroom, I stepped...
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been collecting books for your classroom library for a long time. I started when I was a freshman in high...
My goal as an English teacher has always been to foster critical thinking skills and create lifelong readers—individuals who will continue to read outside of...
On many classroom bookshelves, the characters that sit between the pages of books mirror a handful of prescribed personas; the wise man reflecting on his past...