The first step in any twelve-step program is admitting that you have a problem. Nearly a year ago to the day, when I formally proposed my idea for Reading for Pleasure, I did just that. I came clean and acknowledged my role in contributing to readicide. In his marvelous book, Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and … Continue reading The Road to Recovery

As a teacher leader, I would seem to have a lot of things going for me. I have a MA in English from UNI's TESS (Teaching English in Secondary Schools) program. I am the Department Chair of a sixteen-member English department and serve on a variety of other school committees ranging from leadership to technology … Continue reading On Leading and Reading