In Ovid’s Metamorphosis, we learn the origin story of echoes (alongside a cautionary tale of falling in love with a narcissist). The gist...

In our English III: American Voices class, we frame writing as a way to enter the public conversation, a conversation that began...

This past Monday as part of my school’s in-service, we virtually hosted Dr. Lisa Damour, a psychologist and New York Times best-selling...

One year ago today, I hunched over my laptop at my kitchen table with my friend and colleague Jessica Bailey, and we took the first baby...

My students and colleagues are often surprised to learn that I went to university as a theatre major and, ultimately, graduated with a...

Sometimes it is odd teaching at the same all-girls high school I attended. It is important to note at no point in high school was I a...

Unsurprisingly for someone who ultimately became a librarian, I have always loved to read. Growing up, it was not uncommon to find me...

I’ll let you in on a not-so-secret secret. Selecting texts for an English curriculum is hard. My colleagues and I spend a good chunk of...

I recently read an article about children as young as seven-years-old who are starting businesses and nonprofits. While their efforts are...

My juniors and I are reading The Great Gatsby, and I was again struck by Nick Carraway’s comment that “life is much more successfully...

When writing dialogue for fiction, I have found a useful practice is to simply open one’s ears. This is not the same as active...

I have been working in education for almost seventeen years now, and eight years ago, I became the Dean of Students at an all-girls...

We teachers were all students at some point, and I like to think that I remember quite well what it was like. Nevertheless, sometimes it...

As my colleagues and I wrapped up a week and a half of faculty in-service in preparation for this new school year, I found myself sifting...

This year I am lucky to teach freshmen again. Working at an all-girls high school, I am honored to join them on the first steps of their...

During the week Simone Biles chose her mental health over the pursuit of Olympic gold, I was revisiting two novels I had assigned my...

Of all the spaces I have occupied in my life, a college campus has been one of the most chaotic and unpredictable. But it has also been...

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. -- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Pulling my car out of the...

When I first began teaching at a Catholic all-girls private school in the mid 80’s after seven years in public school, I thought that I...

As an alum of the school where I now teach, I cannot remember a day we were not reminded of the school motto: Serviam--I will serve. We...