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By Mercedes Allen

The sun is shining. The temperature is rising with each passing day. The anticipation of the school year ending is building, with all of summertime’s magic seeming so close…but not close enough. There are still four weeks of school left. And in my classroom, those last four weeks are not only the last weeks of the school year, but the last few weeks w...


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By Erik V Petrushun

My teaching inspirations come from all over the place: watching TV, cooking dinner, shopping in the mall, morning drives listening to NPR (shout-out to WHYY). I came across Brene Brown’s TED Talk “The Power of Vulnerability” a few years back via ...


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By Coley Conter

As I write this, I’m sitting in seat 30F, buzzing with information from my weekend in Denver. My notebook is filled with bulleted notes, big philosophical questions, and tiny teaching moves. If you’ve ever attended NCTE, you know it is equal parts energizing and exhausting. 

Across this weekend, like most of my career in education, I s...


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by Carolyn Ross

This year, I’m working on giving my students a compelling rationale for generating authentic and original work in our ELA courses. Like so many other English educators, I want them to puzzle over questions, read closely, write and rewrite. I want to discourage them from entrusting these critical thinking tasks to AI. This means leaning into a meaning...


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by Dakashna Lang, Ed.D

Ray Bradbury once wrote, “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” When I discuss Fahrenheit 451 with students, they easily see the danger of literal book burnings and make the terrifying historical connections. However, most people do not see the same flames ...


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