5 Short Stories to Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month in Secondary ELA
May is AAPI Heritage Month, so to celebrate, here are 5 short stories that will help your students…
May 3, 2022May is AAPI Heritage Month, so to celebrate, here are 5 short stories that will help your students…
One tool for promoting diversity in the classroom is using texts by international authors. Here are 5 texts…
In this post, I share tips, ideas, & resources for teaching Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes. My students…
No matter what you read, there’s something you’ll love on my list of the best books of 2021!…
Incorporate Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer into your American Literature curriculum as an example of Indigenous literature,…
Looking for more books with trans characters to add to your classroom library? I have recommendations for middle…
Do your students struggle to identify instances of symbolism in a text? Yeah, mine too. So today I…
Do you want to be teaching social justice in ELA but you don’t know where to start? Check…
Want a contemporary novel for your curriculum? Need classroom library suggestions? Check out Clap When You Land by…
I love novels in verse, and the new book Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam…
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month, y’all! We celebrate this every year from September 15th to October 15th, and we…
When Liliana Cruz gets an opportunity to go to a school in the Boston suburbs, her immigrant mother…
I recently finished Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron and it got me thinking about using inclusive YA…
Are you looking to create a more inclusive classroom library? Are you asking yourself, “What should I read…
Looking for a book rec for your sports loving students? I recently read (and loved) After the Shot…
With the decade drawing to a close, it’s time to reflect on the great books released in 2019!…
This week we’re chatting about Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz, a heartwarming #ownvoices tale of two…
It’s Native American History Month! How are you celebrating and honoring Native culture in your classroom? One great…
Books can be both mirrors, reflecting students’ lives, or windows into the lives of others. You know the…
Writer & teacher L. Samantha Smith joins us to chat about The Stars and the Blackness Between Them…
Since we started the YA Cafe Podcast, we’ve gotten a lot of questions around LGBTQ middle grade novels.…
BookTuber, Nikea JaLynn (cohost of the series #BlackGirlLit), joins us to chat about The Revolution of Birdie Randolph…
Are you teaching short stories for high school, and all you have is a dusty anthology of “classic”…
PRIDE month is almost here! Woo-hoo! In celebration, here are 21 diverse LGBTQ+ YA novels for your high…