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About ME

I’m a technology-loving, high school English teacher. And my passion is to help students rediscover a love of reading through authentic, real-world tasks. Despite 20+ years in the classroom, I’m excited about all of the learning that awaits me.

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My Approach to Writing

In many ways, teachers are coaches. And because I’ve been with the franchise twenty-five seasons (even though I’m only 25 😬), I’ve learned a thing or two along the way. Here’s what I’ve learned about writing instruction.

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My Pledge to Students

Before I can ask certain things from my students, I need to make some promises of my own. The first assignment every year begins with a pledge I share with my students, and then they publish their own list of commitments to me.

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our break-up letters to 2020

My Creative Writers keep Writers’ Notebooks, housing writing exercises we complete each week. Some entries are brainstorms, others are single-sitting warm-ups, and others are the beginnings of pieces we’ll develop at a later date. It seems fitting, then, that our final entry for 2020…

Posted on January 30, 2021 by Ms. Beth Hughes

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New Year’s Resolutions–COVID Edition

2020 was, to quote CNN’s Jake Tapper, “a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a trainwreck.” And others agree. Towns rang in the new year with literal dumpster fires; the Holderness family pushed out a Billy Joel parody about them; and one YouTube…

Posted on January 10, 2021 by Ms. Beth Hughes

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The Gratitude Project (Take that, 2020!)

2020 has been brutal. COVID-19, racial injustice (i.e., the Other Pandemic), murder hornets, plane crashes, brushfires, elections, remote learning, working from home. You name it, and it’s most likely been a part of 2020. One theory blames the “Baby Shark” song.  If you’ve ever…

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Ms. Beth Hughes

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