On Stories and Empathy

For the last few years, I've ended every school year by giving students what I refer to as my "empathy" speech, a 5-7 minute attempt to contextualize the importance of the subject I teach (English). None of this is probably terribly new, but this year I felt like writing it out because this is my …

WHY WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS

New vlog post for Writing in the Margins, in which I talk about why I think diversity is important in books.