by Neal Zagarella      When Bruce Springsteen says, “The America I have sung to you about for fifty years is real,” I know that to be...

by Kerry Zagarella Yesterday I stood in a long line at Costco to purchase a membership. I live with my husband and do not need to...

by Kerry zagarella, I grew up in a football family. We were indoctrinated into specific team cults. We were taught what teams  to support...

We have the right to question authority. One of the popular buttons worn by punk rockers in the 1980’s was Question Authority. This idea...

by Kerry Zagarella This past weekend in the famed March Madness College basketball tournament, RJ Godfrey, a player from Clemson...

by Kerry Zagarella When did it become okay to deface the American flag? I wonder what the reaction would be if the Black Lives Matter...

by Kerry Zagarella Happy Juneteenth seems like a strange acknowledgement. Perhaps Happy extremely belated Juneteenth. Juneteenth marks...

by Kerry Zagarella I have already publicly confessed that I follow way too many social media reels, stories, posts and all the other...

By Kerry Zagarella Well before my children were born I had a disdain for Disney. I am not talking about Walt, or The Jungle Book or even...

by Kerry Zagarella Growing up in Florida I wasn’t aware of nature’s patterns. I didn’t think about the dependability of the changing...

by Kerry Zagarella The Purge franchise includes 5 full length movies and one year as a television series. The premise of these dystopian...

by Kerry Zagarella There are certainly many New Year’s resolutions that folks have in common. The main focus is usually physical well...

Take a knee, or two! By Kerry Zagarella I can easily recall from my childhood the majesty of a Christmas Eve midnight mass. The...

by Kerry Zagarella The Chase the Butterfly for CureCMT4J road race is a joyous celebration of human kindness and strength, with an...

I remember the first moment I became a reader. I’m not talking about when I first learned the mechanics of reading; that happened when I...

By Kerry Zagarella 2021 will go down in my teaching history as one of the most inspirational years ever and it was not because of the...

A few months back, during another Covid online shopping spree, I bought some tunics. Long, big huge tunics, that I could wear with...

I have been teaching young children my whole life, a little over 4 decades to be exact. I know I am fortunate to have a career that I...

I really can’t remember which cereal or candy bar was behind the Pan Am plastic airplane mail-in give away promotion of my 1960 childhood...

Teaching has always been about making connections. The most successful classrooms establish collaborative routines, mutual respect,...