April 2025
Uncategorized Annual Resource Issue “This month’s cover illustration is by Ava Boes, Class of 2025 at Grand Rapids Christian High School.” Editorial I joined a book club this year. I’m a female English teacher in her thirties living in the Midwest, so you’re probably [...] Review I love memoir and autobiography as a genre. Throughout my time as a reader, they have played a key role in helping [...] Review From Picture Books to Page-Turners: Books for Every Young Reader Picture Books Freedman, Deborah. Partly Cloudy. Viking Books for Young Readers, 2024. “What do you see when you look at the clouds?” [...] Review Best of the Best: Excellent Reading Experiences across a Range of Eclectic Categories Below are some of the best books out of the two hundred or so I read in 2024. When I teach children’s [...] Review The Resonant Moment: Teaching Poetry for Personal Connection A Review of Word Made Fresh by Abram Van Engen, Eerdmans 2024 A master teacher and scholar, Abram Van Engen teaches poetry [...] Review “Well, There’s Your Problem”: Diagnosing and Responding to Failure in the Classroom A review of Alex Quigley’s Why Learning Fails (And What to Do About It) The first lesson I ever taught was a [...] Review Hope for the Anxious Generation: Engaging with Jonathan Haidt If one book in the past year not explicitly about education has had an outsized effect on educational practice and policy, it [...] Article SPARKing Transformation: Redemptive Adaptive AI Courseware for Student Achievement By Lisa Devall-Martin and Matthew Schonewille The arrival of generative artificial intelligence (AI) parallels that of the Ford Model T in the [...]