I am so lucky to co-teach an English course for high school juniors, American Voices, with Kate Schenck and Megan Griffin. This past...

A year ago I was Chair of our English Department and challenged my colleagues to create a fresh selection of senior level English...

Last fall, looking to escape the insanity of 2020, I picked up a copy of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. In the past, I...

Last spring, like millions of teachers worldwide, I was confronted with the question: What now? It wasn’t that learning became...

In December 2019, I had a major panic episode that launched me from a robust and busy life of performance, achievement, and purpose into...

The day my sixth-grade teacher Ms. Hartman—a stern, perfectly coiffed brunette with an array of glasses in every shade of the...

Yesterday was the inauguration of President Biden, and while I watched the ceremony, I was brought to tears by the pomp and circumstance...

When I was thirteen or fourteen years old, my dad taught me how to “drive stick”, a car with a manual or standard transmission, on farm...

I’m hardly the first teacher to express the desire to improve upon the methods of instruction he or she encountered in their own youth....

My dad, who was a very wise man, always warned me to “never be in too much of a hurry.” When I was in my 20s, and even much of my 30s,...

As the old saying goes, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Or, as we tell our student writers, the writing...

One early morning in March last year, the week before Spring Break, I was drinking coffee and unpacking my bag at my desk when my...