Articles by Dana R Casey

A young student stands in the front of my classroom ready to perform. The students have just turned in their journals which contain four types […]

The world is becoming more polarized every day. A rational middle ground between extremes appears to be crumbling under our feet until one is left […]

Our country has gone through times before where fathers stop speaking to sons, brothers to brothers, neighbors to neighbors. This happened during the Revolutionary War, […]

This Wednesday morning, I am sitting in a classroom acting as a co-proctor for a retest of the English assessment, one of a battery of tests […]

I am a high school English teacher. I became a teacher because I believe that literacy, which goes beyond just reading the words on the […]

Tuffy Gessling, the Obama-mask-wearing rodeo clown has been making national news since last weekend for taunting the bulls to run him down. The outrage over […]

Liberals and the political pundits LOVE the term “the narrative”, the story. Communication theorist Walter Fisher believes that “humans are essentially storytellers” and that “Our […]