Hi!

Thank you for visiting this site. I hope you find something useful for your classroom during your stay. I’ve got lesson plans, resource boards, suggestions, unsolicited advice, Google Slides presentations, and worksheets galore. All for the free and hopefully fruitful use of any educator with a use for them.

A bit about me, if you care to know:

I’m a dedicated Christ-follower, as well as a 3rd-year English teacher at a middle school in Concord, NC. I love my school and its students (and I’m in love with one of the teachers!–my wife, who works down the hall in 6th grade). I also coach boys and girls basketball.

Why I started the blog?

I spent way too much time my first year in the classroom Googling “Short stories for 8th grade” or “Good poems for ELL students.” Too often, I found too little. I thought to myself: “There are so many English teachers out there working to make a bunch of really cool stuff for their students. Why don’t we start sharing that cool stuff to lighten the creative load for everyone?”

Thus, we have this site, which I genuinely hope provides a wealth of resources for teachers both new and experienced.

Why “Teach Good, Teach Well?”:

I had to make it an English pun, obviously. But the title of the site also clues the reader in to my teaching philosophy: we must teach good before we can teach well. Our students need good teachers before they need effective teachers. They need inspiration before they need literacy. They need love before they need skills. Perhaps I am misguided in these beliefs, but I know that my teacher role models with whom I work and have worked subscribe to the same philosophy, so I’m sticking to it.