College applications have become more competitive and increasingly complex over the last ten years. Each institution has their own requirements and the Common Application serves to streamline the process for students and allow them to track their applications to multiple … Continue reading →

Loren shared a recent New York Times article with me by Claire Needell Hollander about the danger of assigning texts without feeling. She calls these types of reading “agnostic texts.” In order to meet the needs of The Common Core, … Continue reading →

Whenever I get ready to call my parents these days, I have to psych myself up.  Not because I don’t want to talk with them, but because I know I have to bring my “A” game to the conversation.  If … Continue reading →