Ms. Beth Hughes

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This is my 28th year as an English teacher. Now, before you try to do the math to figure out how old that makes me, I'm 25. Or at least, my husband, Eric, says I don't *look* like I'm a day over 25, and that, my friends, is why I've been married to that smart, smart man for 28 years. We have 2 children, Anna, our college sophomore (insert Mom's uncontrollable sobbing here), and Will, our high school senior. We also have Bella, our 6-year-old Jack Russell mix who allows us to share some of the rooms in her house. Speaking of homes, we purchased my childhood home 17 years ago--and have been renovating it ever since. #moreprojectsthanmoney I dabbled in higher education and management before becoming a high school teacher, and I am Blessed (not #blessed) to have stumbled onto something that I absolutely love. Yates had it right: “Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” And I’m grateful to those students and colleagues who have kept the fire in this lifelong learner ablaze.

Posts by Ms. Beth Hughes:

• teaching style: the art of the em dash.
• the gratitude project (2023).
• why we stay.
• when numbahs don’t lie (2022-3).
• our breakup letters to 2022
• the gratitude project (2022).
• the collaborative novella.
• spotify flash fiction.
• emulation 101: mirroring authors’ writing moves.
• project-based learning in the writing classroom.