Shirts for ELA Teachers & the Readers They Help Create

Created by someone who's still in the classroom.

Nearly twenty years in an ELA classroom taught me that what you wear on a Thursday in October says something. It tells a kid who walks in guarded that this room might be different. It tells a colleague across the hall that you're the one who put Speak back on the shelf.

So these aren't generic teacher shirts with an apple on them. They're for the specific work — the banned books display, the grammar joke nobody else in the building laughs at, the reader you're still trying to make out of a kid who says he hates reading.

Every design starts with something that actually happened in a classroom. Mine, usually.