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February 2nd, 2026 Published “Gold Rush Fortunes and Heartbreaks” to Teachers Pay Teachers

January 30th , 2026 New Blog Post entitled “Creating Reflowable Text Ebooks (Part Two)”

January 11th, 2026 New Blog Post entitled “Creating Reflowable Text Ebooks (Part One)”

January 4th, 2026 New Blog Post “Festival Successes I Cannot Quantify.”

December 23rd, 2025 New Blog Post “Book Blurbs– December 2025”

December 8th, 2025 New Blog Post “ESWA Book Festival, a Reading, and a Bit of Grits”

November 2nd, 2025 Published “We’re a Little Like Lincoln– A Social-Emotional Learning Mini-Lesson” to Teachers Pay Teachers

October 19th, 2025 New Blog Post entitled “Expanding Our Understanding of Academic Intervention.”

October 12th, 2025 Published “Academic Intervention– Getting Back on Track” to Teachers Pay Teachers

September 11th, 2025 New Blog Post entitled “Prioritizing With Students– What Should I Do First?”

September 11th, 2025 Published Prioritizing– What Should I Do First? to Teachers Pay Teachers

June 26, 2025 Published “Civil War Camp Life and Photography” to Teachers Pay Teachers.

April 6th, 2025 Published George Washington Learns Civility to Teacher Pay Teachers

April 3rd, 2025 New Blog Post entitled “Multiple-choice Items That Measure Up“

March 8th, 2025 Attended Eastern Shore Writers Association’s Bay to Ocean Writers Conference at Chesapeake College

February 9th, 2025 New Blog Post entitled “Movement and Energy in Writing.”

February 9th, 2025 Published Dr. Gesundheit and the Mystery of Snake Valley: An Archeology Mini-unit to Teachers Pay Teachers

January 22nd, 2025 Release of my first novel Jimmy Grits Private Eye through Saltwater Media.

September 23rd, 2024 New Blog Post entitled “Cover Art For Jimmy Grits, Private Eye.”

August 19th, 2024 New Blog Post entitled “Flipping the Flipped Classroom.”

August 4th, 2024 Published The Civil War Begins, a 96-page teaching resource, to Teachers Pay Teachers

July, 2024 Posted a series of “catch-up” notifications to Facebook and began process to consolidate social media to one page

June 11th, 2024 Submitted final version of Jimmy Grits Private Eye to Saltwater Media Publishing

March 9th, 2024 Attended Bay to Ocean Writers Conference at Chesapeake College, MD

December 27th, 2023 Met with Saltwater Media Publishing Company to discuss From The Case Files of Jimmy Grits

October 1st, 2023 New Blog Post entitled “Turning The Writing Industry On Its Head”

March 17th, 2023 New Blog Post entitled “Assembling Your Reader Group.”

March 9th, 2023 New Blog Post entitled “A.I. Writers: Take Me To Your Readers.”

March 7th, 2023 Distributed draft copies of From The Case Files of Jimmy Grits to my first reader group for a novel-length project.

December 4th, 2022 Attended the Cat and Mouse Press Book signing for Beach Holidays in which my short story “Summer Valentines Day” was published.

September 10, 2022 New Blog Post entitled “Who Was The Real ‘Lucky the Chicken?'”

September 10, 2022 New Blog post entitled “More Than A Book Signing.”

August 3, 2022 Received word from Cat and Mouse Press my short story entitled “Summer Valentine’s Day” was accepted for their next anthology entitled Beach Holidays due out late 2022.

July 6th, 2022 I attended a book signing for the Cat and Mouse Press anthology Beach Secrets at the Lewes, Delaware Public Library.  Blog post about my experiences there with an outstanding group of writers, publishers, and editors to follow…

March 5th, 2022 New blog post entitled “Who/Whom Confusion and a Witch.”

January 30th, 2022 New blog post entitled “Simplify to Clarify in Professional Communications.”

September 28th, 2021 marked the launch party and release of the Beach Secrets anthology published by Cat and Mouse Press, in which you will find my story “Lucky the Chicken.”

December 28th, 2019 I completed an expanded version of my World War II Memorial video including new media and narration.  Click here for a transcript and link to the video on Facebook.

November 10th, 2019 marked the launch party and release of the Beach Dreams anthology published by Cat and Mouse Press, in which you will find my story “Lost and Found.”

July 13th, 2019 New blog post about experience-building for writers entitled “Art on Paper Ain’t Easy.”

April 21st, 2019 New blog post on my experiences during a recent book signing in Newark, Delaware for the Beach Pulp anthology: “Book Signing Takeaways.”

March 9th, 2019 Click here for more information about the Beach Pulp Anthology Release Party.  My short story “Moonwalker” appears in this retro speculative fiction themed collection.

January 2nd, 2019 New blog post on hyphen and em dash use– for my writer and teacher friends– entitled “Writing With an Em Dash of Style.”

October 20th, 2018 Just signed a contract with Cat and Mouse Press for a short story entitled “Moonwalker,” which will appear in an anthology due out in the spring of 2019. More Information to follow…

April 30th, 2018 New blog post for everyone entitled “Active Inspiration.”

July 19th, 2017 New blog post for writers, readers, and teachers entitled “Reaching Into The Storm.”

July 19th, 2017 New blog post for writers, readers, and teachers entitled “You Should Be Able To Read It Twice.”

July 4th, 2017 Just published two new blog posts: “Validity in Rubric Building: Quantifiers and Qualifiers” and “The National World War II Memorial.”

June 16th, 2017 Released a new resource for mentor teachers entitled “Resources For Mentoring Student Teachers and Teaching Interns.“

March 4th, 2017 Just posted a blog entitled “Teaching Writing Style To Middle Schoolers” with downloadable style sheets to help students format papers and use internal citations.

December 13th, 2016 Take a look at the new blog entitled “Page By Page,” which is a transcript of a printing video I put together for my facebook page.

June 14th, 2016 Just published a new teaching resource for fourth through sixth grades entitled “Writing Nature Haiku.”

May 17th, 2016 Just published a new ebook for U.S. Government and U.S. History teachers entitled “The Three Branches Memory Game.”

February 11th, 2016 Check out the new post for teachers “Project Walks and Reflections.”

January 31st, 2016 Check out “A Wise Man’s Wisdom.”  This one was co-written by Dave, his wife Judy, and Tobie.

January 27th, 2016 Dave just created a Facebook Page “Dave Cooper”  Swing by, check out his content, and add a comment or two.

December 10th, 2015 Check out the new post “Content Creators and Content Recyclers.”  A new teaching resource on Thomas Paine will be released within the next two weeks.

June 20th, 2015 Prepare for your writing conference using this blog post’s checklist “Writing Conference Preparation (Bring Pants).”

January 18, 2015 Check out the new post “The Torpedo Factory.”

September 6, 2014 Just published a document-based question and persuasive-writing ebook on Thomas Jefferson’s 1779 “A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge.”  Click HERE to jump to it.

August 3, 2014 I published a new post after a more-than-brief blogging hiatus.  Check out “Enthusiasm With A Dash Of Naivety.”

August 2, 2014 The summer months are ticking away, and too many projects are unfinished on my desk! I just published a free activity for teachers entitled “DBQ: Native American Perspectives On Relations With The British.”  Jump to it HERE. Don’t worry my non-teacher friends, I’m still working on some fiction and hope to complete a new short story, soon.

July 30, 2014 I just released a publication on the Teachers Pay Teachers site about using primary and secondary sources in research.  Jump to it HERE.

June 15, 2014 Two new teaching publications uploaded to Teachers Pay Teachers this afternoon.  One deals with introducing new textbooks to students and provides three strategies to familiarize them with how texts are structured.  Jump to it HERE.  The other publication helps teachers create and track measurable behavior goals.  Jump to it HERE.

January 27, 2014 My first fiction ebook entitled From Rough Waters, a collection of three short stories, is now available in Kindle format.  Click on the cover to find out more!

July 10, 2013 I just received word my short historical fiction piece “The Freshet Run” will appear in the Summer issue of Yorick literary magazine.  Look for it online!