A review of Kia Jane Richmond's Mental Illness in Young Adult Literature: Exploring Real Struggles through Fictional Characters. ABC-CLIO, 2019. After meeting Kia Jane Richmond at the Annual NCTE Convention in Baltimore in 2019, I knew I had to read her work. Rather than starting with a short article—of which she has written many—I began … Continue reading New Kinds of Windows, Mirrors, and Sliding Glass Doors: Destigmatizing Mental Health in Our Classrooms through Young Adult Literature by Rebecca Chatham-Vazquez
A Review of Brett Pierce’s Expanding Literacy: Bringing Digital Storytelling Into Your Classroom by Marly Schrom
Screen time during students’ downtime has become inevitable. As a first year teacher, I started the year knowing there would be times when my students would have downtime in class, and I wasn’t going to fight them using their devices. After all, I did the same thing when I was in high school and I … Continue reading A Review of Brett Pierce’s Expanding Literacy: Bringing Digital Storytelling Into Your Classroom by Marly Schrom