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...

On a particularly nondescript day, a day like most others in the middle of the work week, I walked into our faculty’s communal office...

In this post by math teacher Katelyn Hayes, she continues the conversation about the intersections of math, writing, and student...

Notes on this reflection: I am not a mental health professional and my references to “well-being” competencies are based on general...

A few weeks into the first year of my graduate program in American literature, my Race and Gender in Nineteenth-Century American Lit...

As we prepare for the arrival of summer and begin reflecting on this extraordinary school year, COVID-19 has reinforced and made clear...

Let me tell you about a crush I had in college… He carried a messenger bag around campus and scribbled in a notebook so tattered I...

A merchant travels north along an ancient road, pulling an old cart behind him. He comes to an intersection where a woman with a bag sits...

The Status Quo Recently I saw a post on Twitter that asked a question about teaching Shakespeare—if a text or author is considered...

The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers. — Maryam Mirzakhani If I am being honest, part of what drew me...