Secondary ELA January Activities Round-Up

January is the beginning of a new year and also a great time to give your students a “reset” for their academic lives. Here are some great choices for starting off fresh! New Year, New Student Bingo Challenge With the New Year, New Student Bingo Challenge, you can get your students motivated to change oldContinue reading “Secondary ELA January Activities Round-Up”

Easy Prep Holiday Activities for Secondary ELA

For most of you, winter break is just a few weeks away. What are you going to spend time teaching when students’ attentions spans get gradually shorter and shorter as the promise of vacation lurks near? As it gets to the end, I do all our usual end of semester testing and finals, but IContinue reading “Easy Prep Holiday Activities for Secondary ELA”

Presenting at a Teaching Conference

I don’t know what it is about speaking in front of other teachers, but when I have to do it for professional development from time to time, I often get really stressed out and worry about it the entire time until it’s over. Other teachers share the same sentiment! Odd being that we speak inContinue reading “Presenting at a Teaching Conference”