It's Sunday evening. I want to post a mentor text, but my brain, she be empty. I tumble through my thoughts, flip through my mental card...

Okay, not really. The old Culture Club was enough to tide us over for a few more decades at least. Admittedly, I did just scour Culture Club...

Those of you that talk to me on any kind of a regular basis know about my love for Wired Magazine . I love every issue that comes out, and...

Last week I visited our newly-built San Diego Public Library. I had been once before, but hadn't gotten to wander around. My favorite pl...

When I'm looking for mentor texts, I often forget to consider photos. "Reading" a photo uses some of the same skills as r...

Thanks to a friend and colleague Amy , I've renewed my intention to post mentor text ideas each Monday. Since Amy is going to post as ...

I was tickled to learn the work "abecedary" recently. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abecedary Even more ticklis...

Wear the Cape proudly welcomes our first guest blogger!  Jeni Cass is caped teacher from a charter school in San Diego. Jeni truly does wear...

Last week I talked about using UPPERCASE Magazine and their focus on "sticky things" as mentor texts . I also alluded to the fact ...

UPPERCASE Magazine, Issue No. 18, "Cut it Out" is all about collage. Yup.  you read that correctly, collage. It's a beautful m...