424: Ready. Set. Engage with Dystopia!
Years ago, Teri Lesegne wrote a book called Reading Ladders, about meeting readers where they are and then guiding them to new heights. It's...
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This podcast is full of creative teaching strategies, classroom ideas, and inspiration for middle and high school English teachers. Betsy Potash from Spark Creativity presents new ideas for...
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20 of 415 episodes423: Try this Multimodal End-of-Year Review & Reflection
The countdown started yesterday in my kitchen, as my daughter flipped the calendar forward for something and realized she had less than thir...
422: 7 Research-Backed Steps to Better, Easier Feedback in ELA
When my daughter was a baby, she was a terrible sleeper. I spent many early morning hours trying to find advice online from research, expert...
421: Help for Teaching Poetry (Part II)
Earlier this month we started to explore creative poetry activity options for National Poetry Month (and any time!). But there were just too...
420: My 9th Grade Dream Curriculum (as I get an Unexpected Request)
Recently an invite dropped into my inbox - did I want to swing by a school in my city to talk about teaching ninth grade English for them ne...
419: Hate Teaching Poetry? Here's Help (Part I)
Maybe you weren't taught poetry with joy and pizzazz, and you don't incline to writing it yourself. Which perhaps describes, what do you thi...
418: Highly Recommended: The New York Times Contest Calendar
Welcome to another episode in our occasional series of short "Highly Recommended" episodes, in which we dive into a quick idea, resource, or...
417: Graduate Programs for English Teachers (Help to Launch your Search)
I loved the Bread Loaf School of English program at Middlebury College. It's a unique summer program leading to a Masters in English, cateri...
416: Book Club It: How to Restructure (Almost) any Unit into Book Clubs
I'm in a book club right now, for the first time ever. (Yeah, I know, gasp. But I've always had so much to read for so many reasons that I'v...
415: Struggling to Teach Narrative? 6 Craft Strategies for Students
When you boil down the essentials of so much writing, what you get is the need for vivid, original detail. In a college essay, the story com...
414: Highly Recommended: Play the Whole Game
This week would be my Dad's birthday. If he was still here, spice cake with thick caramel frosting would be in order, and a beautiful cross...
413: Creative Lessons from Microschools and Portable Innovation Labs with Dr. Annalies Corbin
Today on the podcast we're digging into student agency and the lessons Dr. Annalies Corbin has learned from her work pioneering microschools...
412: Fresh Ideas for your BritLit Curriculum
A few weeks ago I shared my dream American Lit curriculum here on the pod, and soon after I heard from a British Literature teacher who was...
411: 41 Authentic Audiences for your ELA Students
The word audience conjures up a crowd, perhaps people watching an opera late at night at the Santa Fe outdoor amphitheatre, as the moon rise...
410: The American Lit Curriculum I Would Teach Now
American Lit has the potential to be an engaging, broadening, fascinating course. We're in what I consider an in-between era, where many sch...
409: How to do a Multimodal Flash Verse Project
Let's talk about an incredibly adaptable project in which students experiment with creative ideas across modes. It's easy to plug into a var...
408: For Better Student Revision, Play the Matching Game
The more time you spend writing, the more you know that revision is everything. Let me cite writing superhero John Green on this one, who di...
407: Build a Better Choice Board Project for any ELA Unit
We know we want kids to have choice. As much choice as possible in creating the education that is meaningful and helpful for them. That choi...
406: Try this Choice Twist on Review
I bet you know your favorite way to learn something. Maybe it's by listening to a podcast, skimming a couple of articles on the topic, readi...
405: 5 Creative Activities for A Christmas Carol
Dickens' A Christmas Carol stands out strongly from his other works, but not because it's so different, really, in what it hopes to accompli...