If I were playing Family Feud and the category in play was “Things that Pass” I think I could do pretty well. Because I teach seventh graders, I would have to say, “gas,” but I could quickly follow it up with “time,” “cars,” “storms,” and “kidney stones.” “People” pass and so do “traditions” and “family […]

Everyone has enemies. Right? I’ve shared my love for superhero movies. There are evil enemies in all of those flicks. Every literary character worth anything seems to have a foil. I teach my seventh graders about conflict in the narratives they read and while not every text in the curriculum has a clear “bad guy,” […]

Not two days ago, an EF3, 600 yard-wide tornado tore a path over 11 miles long across the north part of our county. Hundreds of houses and businesses have been leveled. Schools damaged. Property lost. Lives forever altered and lives lost. The destruction photographs and videos I have grown so numb to seeing on the […]