“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” – Harper Lee When I entered 6th grade, books stopped being fun. Somehow I had internalized an unspoken rule of middle school, that I could no longer read about magic and mermaids anymore. This was not explicitly stated,… Read more

Cultural and linguistic diversity is highly important in my current education classes at Colorado State University. I know that I am extremely lucky to be learning how to be a teacher in this time of social progress and acceptance, but I am also painfully aware that many schools in the U.S. do not have this… Read more

I have mentioned my Professional Development text before, but Rozema’s book Seeing the Spectrum: Teaching English Language Arts to Adolescents With Autism is such a valuable resource that I felt it necessary to dedicate an entire post to evaluating these classroom strategies. Not only does the book describe the cognitive and behavioral aspects of Autism… Read more