teaching

📚 8 Free Reading Guides (May 2026)

This includes reading guides to The Odyssey, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, and The Importance of Being Earnest.

May 16 • Adam

✏️ How to Write Relevant Journal Topics

So you want to write daily, literature related questions. Let’s ask another question: How?

Apr 25 • Adam

📓 Twelve Uses for Student Writing Notebooks (+ Example Prompts)

How do your students write for 180 days? These categories might help.

Apr 18

✏️ Beyond the Essay: The Multi-Purpose Script (+ TEMPLATES)

How can students write as deep as possible with as few words as possible? Why not try invented dialogue?

Apr 11 • Adam

✏️ 10 Myths About Teaching Writing (Post #100)

For many, teaching writing is like coaching a sport you’ve never played. Answer keys help with two-step equations, but not thirty sentence essays.

Oct 19, 2025 • Adam

🖥️ Teach Computer Literacy Before AI

Despite falling literacy and computer literacy scores, many districts display artificial intelligence of their own by placing AI over more foundational…

Sep 13, 2025 • Adam

🚌 Back to School Night

A middle school clean and awaiting students. Teachers frantically preparing. Then a family walks in an hour early.

Aug 3, 2025 • Adam

🚌 33 Big Ideas to Start Your School Year

How do you teach with student writing? What are 13.5 evidence-based reading comprehension strategies? This post aggregates multiple lists, getting to 33…

Jul 23, 2025 • Adam

✏️ How to Teach with Student Writing

What if the most relevant writing instruction were reactionary? And what if your best teaching examples waited in front of you?

Jun 25, 2025 • Adam

✏️ Practice Writing Rules by Breaking Them (+ FREE Template)

This rainy day activity helps reenforce writing skills while crowdsourcing future teaching examples. Did I mention it's hilarious and kids love it?

Jun 21, 2025 • Adam

🚌 My Favorite Printable Grading Sheet [+ Template]

Frustrated by inept printable grading sheets? Steal this FREE template which allows easier visual tracking and less wasted paper.

Jun 10, 2025 • Adam

🚌 Open Chalkboard: Teachers in June

Grab the chalk and leave a comment.

Jun 7, 2025 • Adam

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