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Welcome! Here you'll find innovative secondary ELA curriculum, like podcasting projects, one-pagers, PBL units for genius hour and AI research, choice reading program elements, hexagonal thinking for any text, and more. After almost a decade in teaching, I now host The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast and design curriculum for creative English teachers full time. You can find me on Edutopia, Cult of Pedagogy, Truth for Teachers, We Are Teachers, NCTE's Read Write Think and more.
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Preview of 10 Harry Potter Creative Writing Printables with a focus on Sensory Details

10 Harry Potter Creative Writing Printables with a focus on Sensory Details

These Harry Potter Creative Writing Printables will slip easily into the open spaces of any Harry Potter novel unit. Simply print and enjoy watching students imagine themselves into the wonderful world of Hogwarts through their writing. From the Reviews: "My students love these prompts to develop great creative writing pieces." "A great way to help your students see sensory within HP and learn how to use it in their own writing." "Very helpful for my students!" "A very creative resource!" Thi
Preview of Holiday Writing Workshop: The Christmas Plot Twister

Holiday Writing Workshop: The Christmas Plot Twister

In this fun creative writing activity, students choose from a menu of characters, conflicts, and settings, then write a Christmas story on the provided paper. If you wish, extend the writing workshop by having students finish their stories at home, then sharing them in class the next day. Students could share with one partner, sit in a circle and pass them around for fifteen minutes until they’ve read all they can, or read aloud in small groups. New here? Check out my most popular produc
Preview of Christmas Writing Activity: Metaphors and Similes

Christmas Writing Activity: Metaphors and Similes

Christmas Writing Activity: Keep the holiday spirit in the air while you accomplish important practice with metaphors and similes. These cute holiday handouts will help students stay on task as you play some cheery music in the background. Before diving in, remind your students to try to use comparisons they have never heard before, rather than relying on clichés. Share a few examples of clichéd comparisons (my love is like a rose, life is like a box of chocolates, it was as dark as night, I’m p
Preview of 5 Halloween Story Starters on Themed Paper

5 Halloween Story Starters on Themed Paper

Use these fun Halloween writing prompts throughout October. Let students kick off class with creative holiday prompts like: “Of course bats get lonely!” yelled Fred. “I miss my family! I miss my friends! And you’ve hardly been welcoming to me! Halloween is usually my favorite holiday!” Each of the five story starters come on Halloween-themed paper. Just print and enjoy. More Fun for Halloween: Halloween Sensory Details Writing Pack Scary Story Festival I bet you're always looking for
Preview of Halloween Creative Writing Activity: Spooky Story Prompts Cards, Gr. 3 4 5 6

Halloween Creative Writing Activity: Spooky Story Prompts Cards, Gr. 3 4 5 6

Get your students excited about writing this October with this Halloween creative writing activity designed to spark imagination and build storytelling skills. These spooky story prompt cards give students in grades 3–6 everything they need to create their own Halloween-themed tales. With a mix-and-match set of characters, settings, and conflicts, students randomly draw cards and use them to guide their writing. It’s a low-prep, high-engagement way to encourage creative thinking and narrative
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Welcome! Here you'll find innovative secondary ELA curriculum, like podcasting projects, one-pagers, PBL units for genius hour and AI research, choice reading program elements, hexagonal thinking for any text, and more. After almost a decade in teaching, I now host The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast and design curriculum for creative English teachers full time. You can find me on Edutopia, Cult of Pedagogy, Truth for Teachers, We Are Teachers, NCTE's Read Write Think and more.

Teaching style

I like to use creative, artistic, differentiated pedagogies. I constantly promote free-choice reading, use interdisciplinary journal prompts and help students explore different forms of creative writing. I like a variety of discussion forms like literature circles and fishbowl discussions, but particularly focus on developing the group dynamics required for round-table discussions.

Awards & shining teacher moments

National Arthur Ashe Award for Community Involvement, Leadership, and Sportsmanship The Webb Schools New Teacher Award

My own education history

B.A., Pomona College M.A., Middlebury College

Additional biographical information

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast The Creative High School English Facebook Group @nowsparkcreativity nowsparkcreativity.com