I spent four months in Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, as a volunteer English teacher at the end of 2016. I learned how to haggle, how to say a handful of phrases in Chinese, and how to navigate subways, which (as a Utahn) I’d never had to do before. I

When I tell my seventh-grade students we’re reading poetry, their response is usually the same: one long, collective groan. I try not to let it get to me, but it’s still disheartening. Their unenthusiastic reaction is similar to the response I hear from adults when words like “sonnet”

When I was a graduate student at Brigham Young University, I received weekly training on how to teach BYU’s first-year composition course. One such training focused on helping students find credible sources for their research papers. To illustrate the importance of finding factual sources, our professor described the story

One is the sum of the fractions of us 'Cus we're broken and we're bent But together this puzzle makes so much sense –Mindy Gledhill Growing up in Utah, I always identified as Republican. I didn’t know much about Democrats except that all their philosophies were wrong. The right