April 2025
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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 [...]