Unrelenting tears dripped onto my open book as I cackled with laughter, surrounded by freshmen in a circle on the floor, consumed by the...

This month, while reading Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain, I came across a quote in her opening chapter...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we extended an invitation to our fellow teachers in the English, World Languages, and Social...

There’s a moment in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre where the protagonist Jane, shifting into the self-assured voice of an Anglican...

Two years ago during the pandemic lock-down, I familiarized myself with food delivery apps such as DoorDash and Grubhub. I delighted in...

I’m a first-year high school history teacher trying to survive what was supposed to be a post-COVID year that is very much still weird....

In a binge-watch society, television shows and film franchises typically take on most of the public conversation in pop culture. When I...

This week my school’s African American Awareness (AAA) Club and Office of Community and Inclusion offered a special workshop on Black...

We are always reading on the side here at Her Voice at the Table, and this week we want to spotlight some of our favorite texts about...

Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each other’s eyes or not, about to speak or speaking All about us is...

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...