“I believe each of my students must craft an individual reading life of challenge, whim, curiosity, and hunger, and I’ve discovered that it is not too late in high school  to lead a non-reader to reading.  It’s never too late.”—Penny Kittle

Penny Kittle wants us to face the hard truths every English teacher fears:  too many kids don’t... more

"Love brings us in close, leads us to study the details of a thing, and asks us to return again and again. These are the motivations and ideas that built this book."
—Chris Lehman and Kate Roberts

You and your students will fall for close reading. In Falling in Love with Close Reading, Christopher Lehman and Kate Roberts show... more

“Let me just write already!” says one student to another.

What makes a student want to write?  How can we help students with long-held aversions to writing come to view writing as an invitation to create, to become, and to belong?

In Youth Scribes: Teaching a Love of Writing, R. Joseph Rodríguez argues that when we build adolescents’ scribal identities—writers... more

We all have stories. We all have experiences to share. A memoir with a call-to-action, The First Five affirms the humanity of all teachers. Patrick inspires you to dream big about what you want for yourself, our students, our schools, and our educational system.

In The First Five, Patrick brings to light the realities of teaching, especially in... more