Students are likely to (at best) skim or (at worst) skip a poem entirely when it interrupts the prose of an assigned novel. This reading malpractice is not without consequences! So, how do we convince students that this generic navigation is labor worth undertaking?

I recently joined the Unofficial Office Hours podcast for a conversation about BYTE and the larger question of how teaching-focused faculty can make their work visible in ways that feel authentic, strategic, and sustainable.

Despite their flaws, engaging with formal student evaluations is part of being a scholarly teacher. In this post, I share several quick tips for responding to mid-year feedback when there isn’t time for a major course design overhaul.

NCTE 2025 came to a close after four full days of teaching conversations, creativity, and community. In this 3×3 recap, I’m sharing what I presented, what I learned, and what I’ve added to my to-be-read list for the trip home.

I share how my Introduction to Poetry students create a multimodal critical edition, a project that blends digital creativity and literary analysis while teaching them to think and act like editors in the twenty-first-century classroom.

I share three strategies — global feedback sheets, lesson plan calendar blocking, and Canva templates — that can help any faculty member survive a heavy teaching load for the first time.

Celebrate Open Access Week with a free toolkit for writing stronger, more engaging course descriptions that attract students to your course and discipline.

In celebration of NCTE’s National Day on Writing, I reflect on why I — despite a (self-inflicted) heavy teaching & service load — write.

OERs provide an extraordinary opportunity to circulate innovative teaching practices, amplify faculty voices, and expand educational equity. But doing so well requires intention. After all, open isn’t just about access. It’s about authorship, agency, and the story we tell about how we teach.

This post explores why digital creativity should be treated as both a fundamental literacy and a human right in general education and beyond.

In this active learning exercise, students work collaboratively to reverse-engineer a sonnet, focusing on the poem's formal characteristics to predict the correct order of the lines in the original composition.

In this post, I guide you through the process of making our data collection transparent to students, and I provide a list of adaptable questions that you can use to assess your students’ understanding of the content and gather their thoughts on the course in progress.

Are you a veteran poetry teacher looking for new ideas, or are you preparing to teach poetry at the college level for for the first time? Use these resources to jumpstart your lesson planning this semester.

I’m kicking off a new mini-series designed to help you reflect on your goals and commitments as you navigate life inside and outside the classroom. Each semester is a chance to pause and take stock, in this case of your of service commitments, areas for growth, and how you’ll document your impact.

I consistently receive comments in my student evaluations about how much they appreciate the intentional and transparent design of my Canvas pages and how organized it keeps us. I’m sharing three tips (and some custom code!) to level up your Canvas sites and improve your own students’ experience.

I had the pleasure of being a guest speaker at IUB’s New Faculty Orientation to talk about active learning in my GenEd courses. I’m sharing 3 active learning strategies from this session and my classroom that you can apply to your courses this fall.