A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential.

A book isn’t rigorous if students aren’t reading it.

What power--what importance--lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share.

Habits of an empowerED teacher: “read, notice, think, make theories about how writing works, imagine possibilities, write yourself; it isn’t magic, it’s just slow, creative work.

Teachers need to sit with their journal and write in the voice of that teenager. Write and remember. That’s who we teach!