In The Vocation of a Teacher, Wayne Booth, the literary critic and longtime English professor, posed a question that floats into my mind every May: “Why, if I claim to love teaching so much, am I so ...

We teachers need all the inspiration and support we can get, and books can be a source of both. Today’s post begins a series in which teachers share recent books and other articles that they have ...

Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

In Teaching Sustainability/Teaching Sustainably, Danielle Lake writes the best sentence I have ever read summarizing sustainability: “Understanding sustainability as a wicked problem, and recognizing ...

Given the current state of the world, and the long-existing issues that have led to this moment in national history, it's more important than ever before that parents teach kids about kindness and ...

Explore how books offer deep life lessons, emotional wisdom, and perspective that real-life experience often teaches too late or not at all.