By Kim Miklusak Often we hear people bemoan a perceived or real decrease in sustained reading in our students.  Teachers express frustrat...

By Emily Mikuzis Last week we had our first taste of warm weather, stirring up all those spring feelings: the hope that we may have sho...

By Linda Ashida That is exactly what English teachers Kristen Guth and Jackie Randall discovered when they gave up control and used litera...

Written by Linda Ashida In all of the professional learning that the Collab Lab facilitates, we always look for opportunities to expand ou...

By Jackie Figliulo  Whether asking students to engage with class-assigned texts or books of their choosing during independent re...

By Kristen Guth Lately, as I reflect on my unit plans, I find myself continually coming back to the same questions. What is the purpose...

By Kim Miklusak This year I have decided to flip the order of how we access The Great Gatsby .  In the past we have read texts that center...

By: Rachel Barry "Very funny, Ms. Barry.  Math teachers don't read!"  This was a comment made by one of my students in...

By Kim Miklusak For a while now people have been recommending the books Book Love by Penny Kittle and The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Mil...

By Sandra Lee It’s definitely challenging teaching a Shakespeare text to a class with such diverse needs and demands. The graphic novel...

By Kristen Guth Recently I have been involved in a lot of conversations about Standards-Based Grading and what that looks like in an E...

By Mark Heintz In human geography the students are learning about population density and distribution. After going through several days of...

By Kim Miklusak Last year I read this blog post by Kylene Beers.   I definitely recommend taking a moment to read and reflect upon it.  In...

By Kim Miklusak I've been reading a lot lately...This week's book recommendation is Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor...

By Kim Miklusak As a disclaimer, I've only started playing around with the OverDrive App this past week.  There are so many things I...

By Kim Miklusak Traditionally I have had my AP English Language students create a timeline for the plot of Slaughterhouse-Five .  The book...