Students appreciate it when there's less academic rules and expectations for writing. Here's how to assign a creative nonfiction essay on a topic of choice.

It's easy to get distracted at work so here are some tips to stay focused and not bring work home.

These five simple methods will help you create a positive and welcoming classroom environment where students feel comfortable sharing their ideas.

Instead of getting upset about kids and their phones, let's teach stories about how and why people consume media.

Let's talk about the moving parts of the psyche and how students can use Freud to make a better interpretation of a character's behavior.

Give your students six options to create graphic organizers and track the patterns, topics, and motifs of a poem, short story, novel, or play. Posters are a great way to get students out of their seats by collaborating, presenting, organizing their ideas and quotes.

Learn five techniques that will help you teach The Bard.

Reading blocks held during class time may help students read challenging novels.

Let's think about how to get kids off their phone and tuned into the conversation.

Here is my list of 9 contemporary novels to teach in high school.