This e-book uses authentic freshman-level texts to teach important academic reading skills and prepare English Language Learners for university. It was co-written with Matthew Burrows and Kendra Staley and funded through a generous grant from Colorado’s Department of Higher Education.

This Sherlock Holmes fanfiction course inspires students to create their own stories based off Sherlock books, television shows, and movies. Read about the course here or visit YourEnglishDetective to see elements of the course on the student-facing site.

This project began in 2010 as a set of weekly online quizzes (formerly hosted at theacademicword.org). The vocabulary words from those quizzes were systematically presented in classroom materials and warm-up activities, following a spaced repetition model.

This life skills curriculum, co-developed with Melinda Gale, was for teenage ELLs who had recently left high school. The goal was to develop their writing, computer literacy and basic math skills while helping them research housing options, find employment, and manage their money.