It's National Poetry Month. It's my turn to post, and National Poetry Month is my topic. I  am the least qualified of the TA...

Wow! We’ve got a lot to cover today. First, a continuation of my previous post about Waiting Out the Storm . After my manuscript was acc...

First off, I love teaching. Students. Teachers. Student Teachers. Children. Adults. Writers Young and Young-at-heart. I live-and-breathe...

Congrats to our own JoAnn Early Macken on the fabulous review of Waiting Out The Storm in The Washington Post this weekend.  (She might be...

My brand-new picture book Waiting Out the Storm was released by Candlewick Press this month. Yippee! My generous fellow Teaching Authors ...

Last Thursday, five of the Teaching Authors were gathered together as April posted live from her hotel room at the President Abraham Lincol...

We Teaching Authors are still catching up from being away at the Illinois Reading Council Conference last week . I'll report on the co...

Out and Abou t! Guess what?  Teaching Authors are PORTABLE!  Today, five Teaching Authors gave a wildly successful workshop (I can s...

I’m Out-and-About and in clover today, wheeling to Springfield, Illinois to join four of my five fellow Teaching Authors for our Workshop ...