Go check out Crystal's post on New Orleans streetcars today! Tonight's post was supposed to be all about my exciting date night...

Today I sat back and watched my class fall into reading all over again. We read the new pop-up version of The Lorax . They lov...

This year I keep hearing the same things over again: Standards have changed! The new STAAR test is more rigorous! Writing must happen acr...

This morning I rushed up the stairs to my classroom, eager to begin the day. It didn't matter that I was a few minutes later than I pla...

This is a post about NaNoWriMo and creativity. This is a post about NaNoWriMo and creativity I began writing about an hour ago. This is...

NaNoWriMo is right around the corner, and I find my creative wheels spinning as I rev up for this year's challenge. Last year, I brough...

Each new school year is a mystery waiting to be unraveled. It doesn't matter that the children come in at the same age, or that they le...

This school year marks the fifth anniversary of my move from private school director to public school teacher. After five years you...

Today was a swirling, ride the waves til you're home again sort of day. Surrounded by my sister, nieces, nephews, sunshine and splashin...

Mentor text: If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff and Twilight Comes Twice by Ralph Fletcher (taken from Corbett Harrison ) Poe...

Today was a lazy day. While everyone played at the park, I stole a moment for myself to read, which ended in a cozy nap. So today's poem...

Mentor text: House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros This was actually an older SI teaching demo from North Star. Since I decided to use...

It occurred to me that I didn't explain the inspiration for yesterday's Poem from the Road.  I've decided to multi-task, since t...

While driving last night I was thinking about a teaching demo on poetry at Summer Institute. We talked about the book Locomotion and looked...

I really have to wonder who the heck came up with the whole "sharing is caring" slogan.  Definitely not the emotionally stunted pe...

How do you measure,  measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee . In  inches, in miles, in laughter , in stri...

Tonight I am busily-happily-sleepily-weepily working on my pieces for the multigenre project I'm putting together for my NWP research on...

I finished the draft of the (rockin awesome) proposal to my principal in hopes of inspiring her to let me teach a boys writing class twice a...

Today was an amazing day filled with poetry, and naturally, that made me very happy.  At NWP we talked about how to let kids use today's...