• I Hate This Book Now

       Presentation at the National Council of Teachers of English, November, 1999, Denver, Colorado.

• The Schools Our Children Deserve

       Book Review and Questions for Graduate Pro-seminar, Viterbo University, 2000

• Since Title IX: Gender Representation in Young Adult Sports Literature

       Presentation at the National Council of Teachers of English, November, 1998, Nashville, Tennessee.

• So What Do We Do with R.L. Stine?  Gender Codes and Behaviors in Teen-age Slasher Novels

        Presentation at the National Council of Teachers of English, November, 1997, Detroit, Michigan.

• Merging Into One:  Teaching the Sacred in A River Runs Through It

• How Can I Teach Peace?

          Presentation at the Graduate Pro-seminar, July 14, 2000, Viterbo College, La Crosse, Wisconsin

• Who Cares? Teaching with an Ethic of Care in the Classroom

           Presentation at the Institute for Ethics in Leadership, November 2, 2000, La Crosse, Wisconsin

• A Strange Shifting in My Head: Using Young Adult Literature to Teach Our Students to Be Kind

           Presentation at the National Council of Teachers of English, November 15, 2001, Baltimore, Maryland.

• "Good Book about the Good Book." Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 33.2. 199-201.

             Book Review of An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880  by Paul C. Gutjahr.

• The Pigman's Story: Teaching Paul Zindel in the 21st Century

            Published in Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints. Ed. Nicholas Karolides.  Scarecrow P, 2001.

• "Floating Without a Mother: Missing Mothers in Young Adult Fiction"

                National Council of Teachers of English, Atlanta, Georgia, 2002.

• Lesson Plan for Chris Crutcher's Whale Talk
   

• Lesson Plan for Carl Hiaasen's Hoot
   

• Young Adult Literature Reading Group