There comes a tiredness with having attended a big conference, a sense of exhilarated exhaustion that inevitably catches up to almost all attendees that do not live in the host city.

However, it’s the good kind of “spent”, the kind that comes with having tapped into a host of personal reserves.

For me, the draining derives as a result… Continue

As we enter Thanksgiving week it really is a time for me to recognize how much my students mean to me. I truly am a better human being because they are in my life.

They make me smile, laugh, hurt, angry, and tear up. They also make me proud, ashamed, hopeful and fearful.

And sometimes they do this back to back to back as if it's all ha… Continue

Being at NCTE once again proves the point that mandatory conference attendance and professional development needs to become a prime focus if we are really going to elevate the performance of our schools.

I can't even begin to cover the amount of dynamic, sound, invigorating and readily appli… Continue

So people are now being sued for libel based on the content of their tweets. And while the courts are struggling to keep up with technology -- and how free speech plays out in evolving social networking mediums -- there is a lesson for all to be learned, I believe, in the idea that "slande… Continue

For those of you attending NCTE, Alan is on a panel discussion. Stop by and say hello! The BookJam booth is #429.

Session: E.08 - 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm 11/20/2009 Format: Panel
Room: Convention Center/Room 201A, Level 2 Topic: Reading
Level(s): General (proposals of interest at all instructional levels)
Title: Literacy Ain't for Wimps! Engaging 21rst Century Readers with Three Award Winning Young Adult Authors
Come hear how Gordon Korman, Sharon Flake and Alan Sitomer are connecting with teachers… Continue