Digital Storytelling
Cross-Curricular Writing Teachers in elective courses sometimes struggle to design lessons that teach the content and skills of their courses when …
Read MoreStudents Starters Enhance Teaching
Student Starters Now is a good time to plan on releasing more responsibility for learning to your students. The first …
Read MoreActivating Strategies for Reading
Reading: Activating Thinking Here is a chart strategies to get students thinking about new units, new books, or new readings. Many are interactive …
Read MoreRevamping Senior Course?
IT’S NOT TOO SOON TO PLAN AHEAD. Two senior courses that worked well for college prep students have a required …
Read MoreNEW BOOK this SUMMER
I am delighted to be on the editorial team for a new book, SWEETHEARTS OF ZION’S HILL, a sequel of …
Read MorePoetry is…
Poetry is written to be understood! “Poetry is literature designed to convey a vivid and imaginative sense of experience, especially …
Read MoreShakespeare’s Birthday
Happy 452nd Birthday, Will! April 23rd is the day many celebrate the birth of William Shakespeare, one of the more widely …
Read MoreCelebrating Collaboration with Art, Music, Dance and Dramatic Readings from On Zion’s Hill
Celebrating ON ZION’S HILL: A Novel (2015) To celebrate Black History Month, The Bishop’s School hosted a collaborative event with …
Read MoreNational African American Read-In 2016
Reading Together Anywhere My book is recommended this year for the The National African American Read-In Sponsored by the Black …
Read MoreMaking Masks to Reveal Character
Why Did They Do That? Students sometimes miss the significance of a fictional character’s behavior because these inexperienced readers may have …
Read MoreMeet Anna
Books by Anna
