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Curated Short Stories Library

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Get instant access to an extensive collection of age-appropriate short stories, each with complete lesson materials. End the endless search for quality literature and engage your students with compelling texts – all with minimal prep!

Reading TRIIPS Collaborative Reading Curriculum

Transform Reading in Your Classroom with Reading TRIIPS

Watch your students evolve into independent, analytical readers! The Reading TRIIPS unit offers a structured approach to critical reading, complete with practical documentation tools. Students will learn to navigate complex texts with confidence, and you'll save valuable grading time.

Creative Writing Course Curriculum

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Transform reluctant writers into empowered authors! Our comprehensive writing instruction system provides sequential lessons and student exemplars, so you can implement proven strategies without reinventing the wheel.

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Let's be real: "empowering teachers" and "transforming writing instruction" sounds great on paper, but you need practical support, not just buzzwords. That's where I come in.

Forget abstract theories. I'm here to be your coach, your mentor, your sounding board. Years of experience working with both brand-new and seasoned ELA teachers have taught me one thing: you need someone in your corner who gets it.

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Let's collaborate. Let's find ways to make your life easier and your students' writing more impactful. Let's bring back the joy of teaching ELA, one manageable step at a time. You don't have to do this alone.

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In years past, teachers were seen as the authoritative, all-knowing figure who determined a student’s success with their choices of literature, assignments, and tests.  As you might remember from your own school years, this type of power struggle didn’t benefit all the students. If anything, many students became less engaged in classroom discussion and viewed

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When I consider AI apps like ChatGPT, I think about the possibilities for this technology to support students in being more effective writers. Recently, I listened to a great podcast with Michelle Boyd Waters and Aimée Myers (2023) on positioning AI apps as thinking partners (English Education, April 2023).

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Read the latest articles written by Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed. and reThink ELA contributors.

One would think, after spending 10 years teaching English language arts in secondary schools and 13 years writing about the topic, I

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Since generative AI burst onto the educational scene in 2023, I’ve toyed with a few of the tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT

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I'm thrilled to announce the publication of my article, "Planting Seeds of Confidence: Nurturing Student Writers Through Imposter Syndrome," in the latest

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Join me as I share highlights from my first two days at the National Council of Teachers of English Convention in Boston!

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I say this every time I write one of these update posts -- but then life and school happens, and I realize

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