Here are some articles, guest posts, and interviews I’ve done over the years.

• Don’t Break the Ice, Build Community was one of the top-read articles by middle-school teachers and school administrators the month it was published. How to turn away from perfunctory icebreakers and get students really building community.

• Making Discoveries: an ESL story is an interview I did with Jennifer Lebedev of English with Jennifer fame. Learn how I became an English teacher, my favorite icebreaker, and my least favorite place to go to the bathroom.

• Teacher to Teacherpreneur interview is an interview I did with Patrice Palmer on how I published my own book, and other fun stuff about my day. In case, you wanted to know when I eat lunch!
• Mid-Year Community Building is a guest post where I share some of my thoughts on doing icebreakers all year round, especially after a break in the term.
• Icebreakers Aren’t Just for the First Day of Class is a guest article on the TiePlay Educational Resources blog about the benefits of doing icebreakers all year round, not just on the first day of class. I shared some icebreakers that I think are particularly well suited to keeping up with students” changing lives, interests, and needs.

• It’s Not Them, It’s You: Why Students Don’t Pay Attention And How To Keep Dead Time Out Of Your Classroom is a series of tips for keeping class moving so students don”t have time to get bored, published on the Busy Teacher website.

• A Post-TESOL 2014 Reading List for Materials Writers published on the TESOL Blog. I remember going to a lot of sessions about corpuses that year. And drooling over Philip Kerr’s book on using L1 in the classroom!

• Teaching Intros and Conclusions to ELLs Without a Safety Net, a post on teaching students to write good introductions and conclusions, published in TESOL Connections,.

• From the Trenches: Reminiscences from a First ELT Writing Project , some lessons learned from my first gig with one of the big publishing houses that was printed in the MWIS Newsletter.

• My method for teaching vocabulary using Social Learning was published in IATEFL Voices. I’ve also produced some worksheets using the social learning method at Teachers Pay Teachers.