I’m taking a different approach with my post this week. Rather than take up space with my own words, I thought I’d share something more...

“Be yourself. Everyone else is taken,” quipped Oscar Wilde (or so it is thought, at least). “Be who you are and be that well,” said St...

I’ve just finished Kwame Alexander’s The Crossover (2014). Will I teach it? To what grade levels? How I might integrate it into my...

It’s been awhile since I’ve read a book that I’ve loved for all it offers; am itching to recommend to anyone and everyone; and am so...

Critical fictions effectively intervene and challenge dominant reading practices when they compel the uncritical reader to put aside set...

I have often viewed literature as the voice through which the silenced, the colonized, the oppressed and marginalized tell their...

“The purpose of teaching literary theory at the secondary level is not to turn adolescents into critical theorists; rather, it is to...

This week’s readings dipped into three topics in education that dovetail nicely into one another, namely inquiry (“Teaching So It...

This was a summer of firsts for me at school after returning to academia after several years away: my first education course at the...

If you follow the philosophy of Paolo Freire or read Eric Toshalis, if you have students of varying learning abilities in your classroom,...