July 2012

  • Teaching Tip – Music

    Welcome to Teaching Tip Tuesday! Every week I share with you a tip that I hope you will find useful in your teaching. You can visit the Teaching Tips Archive to see all of the tips in the order I have posted them over the years. Please check that page as I will continue to […]


  • I’ve Been Saying It Wrong All This Time

    English: Humming Bird – Texas (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I like to ponder over things, especially at stores. I examine the product carefully, turn over the package several times, ask myself whether or not I should buy it, if I’ll get good use out of it, if it is exactly what I want, if it’s worth […]


  • Scrabble Tiles, Word Games, and YA combine in "Mutiple Choice"

    Multiple Choice is a novel by Janet Tashjian that I knew I just had to read. I found it in the school library and was immediately drawn to it. It was one of those books that I just wanted to dive into and forget about everything else. Of course, I couldn’t do that. I was […]


  • Graphic Novels of 2012 (Part 3)

    I am blogging everything I read over the course of this year. It’s a pretty impressive list and it is continuing to grow. Here are the latest graphic novels that I have read this year. Marvel 1985 by Mark Millar and Tommy Lee Edwards This graphic novel was originally published as a six-issue series in […]


  • Teacher Tip – Planning

    Welcome to Teaching Tip Tuesday! Every week I share with you a tip that I hope you will find useful in your teaching. You can visit the Teaching Tips Archive to see all of the tips in the order I have posted them over the years. Please check that page as I will continue to […]


  • Chasing Content – July 2007

    Let’s convert our keyboards into time machines and travel back to July 2007 in the bonus edition of Chasing Content. You can read all of the posts from July 2007 . . . or just these super-cool ones! Heartbeat: My Favourite Book – Heartbeat by Sharon Creech is my all-time favoruite book. It is poetic and sounds […]


  • Now’s About Write (Free Download)

    This is the sophomore album from my rap group, Mission 5. I wanted to show what Mission 5 was all about with this album cover. The headphones, DJ needle, and microphone show that we are all about hip-hop culture. The binder and pen were to show that we were writers as well. I wrote all […]


  • A Podcast of Inspiration and Encouragement for Writers (Barbara Abercrombie Interview)

    We’re talking with Barbara Abercrombie, author of A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement. It definitely is a great book for anyone interested in writing. I know that I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was a privilege to be able to talk to her about it. This is the second part […]


  • Write Dangerously with Barbara Abercrombie (Author Interview and Podcast)

    Chase: “All right everybody, this is Chase March and I have Barbara Abercrombie on the phone, author of A Year of Writing Dangerously:365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement. Download the podcast of this interview for free, stream it with the player below, or keep reading the transcript. I think this is a book that a […]


  • Teaching Tip – Parents

    Welcome to Teaching Tip Tuesday! Every week I share with you a tip that I hope you will find useful in your teaching. You can visit the Teaching Tips Archive to see all of the tips in the order I have posted them over the years. Please check that page as I will continue to […]