Curious to know more about how I can help you?

Yup! Your life, your health, and your personal family time comes first . . .

And if ^THAT^ resonates with you, then you’re in the right place!

I created this website and the Middle School Language Arts Teachers Lesson Plan Membership so that superbusy teachers never again have to choose between personal family time or prepping for class. 

As a certified (grades 5-12) middle school English Language Arts teacher and M.Ed., I’m 100% dedicated to helping you teach awesome lessons each day of the school year while still having a life outside the classroom for both yourself and for your family (so you can live a life of passion, simplicity, and health).

I’ve spent over 20 years teaching English / Language Arts to grades 5-12 AND as in instructional coach. Now I serve super-crazy-busy Middle School ELA teachers who are done and done sacrificing their personal / family time prepping for class.

Afternoons, evenings, weekends, and holidays are for yourself, your friends, and your family – NOT for lesson-planning, gathering resources, spending hours upon hours online trying to piece random things together to make all the lessons and activities you need each day.

^ I said what I said. Amen.

You’re a human being first–a spouse, a parent, a friend, a ‘being’ meant to live your best life!

Being a teacher is only part of that, and so it’s my mission to provide Middle School ELA Teachers with solid, creative, rigorous instruction for their students so they can save time and leave work at work.

You can teach high-quality, engaging lessons and then wipe your hands clean each day and go home to your family and your other duties at a reasonable time.

–>>> This should be the norm, not the exception.

Here at languageartsteachers.com, I provide weekly and monthly lesson plan curriculum units (aligned to both Texas TEKS and to the Common Core State Standards) that you can download and use in your classroom all throughout the school year. 

Through my website, writing, curriculum unit planning, and digital trainings, I work to serve Middle School English Language Arts teachers (hello, reading and writing).

Why did I decide to start this kind of service with sooo many other teacher lesson plan options out there?

That’s easy: No matter how many cute little bundles of lesson goodies available for download, or how many hours you could spend scouring the Internet for that perfect lesson, it never really solves the problem of finding the time to piece everything together.

Think about it: If you download a super-cute poetry lesson, it’ll either end up being too challenging, too easy, or too long or too short and even then, you still have to figure out what to teach before and after. 

Plus, teachers typically end up having to create a mini-lesson of some sort to introduce the topic, search for a supporting video to engage students, plan various levels of questions and interactive activities, figure out a little exit ticket…

So you see, ultra-busy middle school ELA teachers need one place that has it all done:

• the objective and standards done each day
• the bellringer / hook / warm up / do now done
• the instructional mini-lesson activity done
• the handouts or printables done
• the follow-up activity or quiz done
• the final unit test done
• the differentiated instructional components done

… And it all has to flow from one day to the next in a way that makes sense for teachers AND students!

➡️ That’s what I set out to create. You MUST be able to enjoy your weekends and walk in Monday morning knowing that all you have to do is boot up your computer, maybe print a couple of handouts (or not, if you’re totally digital), get the mini-lesson going . . . and know that it has all been strategically planned out with intention and with rigor and that it will be engaging and accessible each day for your students.