If You Liked This Book, Then Read This

For today I made a simple graphic highlight a number of 2022 books. These are all books I've read this year that I can't get enough of. For some students, sometimes that familiar book is just the next step to push them towards something fresh.

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How to Upload Videos for Student Access

Hi fellow educators, I know we're delving into uncharted territory here with iLearning. After listening to Kristin Ziemke, author of Read the World, talk about the value of face time with our students, I started to really consider how my students are seeing me. Despite my initial reluctance, I decided to record videos for them. I want to find ways to build student/teacher relationships in this tough time. But what I realized quickly was Screencastify (as amazing as it is) uploads at the speed of snail. So with that in mind, I found an alternative way of uploading videos. I hope you find this helpful: If you have any questions, feel free to drop a comment below. Wishing you the best of luck on these new future endeavors. All the best, Daniel Valentin Daniel Valentin teaches American Dream, British Literature and English 9 at Horace Greeley High School. He is currently reading Slay by Brittney Morris and is listening to Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. He w...

Best Books of 2021

Well... it's that time of the year again. As of this writing (and still 10 days to go), I've finished 164 books. A record for me. But I'm here to tell you what made my top 10 adult books for the year (hopefully within the week I will publish my top 10 YA books). If you would like a one page printable copy, click here . So without further ado, here's the list. 1. The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. The Prophets isn’t just the best written book of 2021, it might be the best written book of the millennium. Beautifully written but also heart breaking, this genre bending novel recalls Morrison at almost every turn, and in the process tells one of the most gorgeous and heart breaking love stories of all time. This is the story we need in 2021. A true reckoning of our past. 2. Bewilderment by Richard Powers After The Overstory, all attention is on Richard Powers. But Bewilderment is so different. Rather than a sprawling narrative, we’re given something far more intimate. A stor...

Food Literacy: From Food Map to Food Poetry

Throughout 2019, Food Literacy entered my life. Last year, Ruth Reichl's Save Me the Plums topped my favorite books of the year . Through various unknown circumstances (kismit, I believe they call it), I ended up reading a number of gourmet memoirs (Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi, The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers) and even other books I loved circulated around food (Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur, With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo). During NCTE's #WhyIWrite month, a variety of people talked about food writing in the classroom and beyond. Food is at the center of what we do, and (in honest transparency here) I'm a bit of a food nut. It's not just that I like eating, it's that I care a lot about what enters my body. Maybe it's my part time work in the fitness industry, maybe it's the copious amount of food prepping I do on Sunday nights, or maybe it's all the Netflix and Hulu cooking shows I binge-watch on any given weekend...

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