
Teachers Can and Should Lead
It’s a scene that is played out time and again across the country— teachers are asked to fall in line with the shortsighted policies of administration without ever having been… Read more »
It’s a scene that is played out time and again across the country— teachers are asked to fall in line with the shortsighted policies of administration without ever having been… Read more »
This past week, I went through the week with a feeling of disgust and an unsettled feeling that I just could not shake. After leaving work on Friday, I first… Read more »
This school year has been a challenge—a challenge for many reasons that I was not expecting. I have been working tirelessly throughout the past 2 years to create an educational… Read more »
If you are reading this because you think that this will be a tutorial on how to read your child’s state test scores, you have come to wrong place…. Read more »
Teaching in a charter that ends at 8th grade means that that my students are left making a life-altering decision at the age of 13 or 14. Many might ask:… Read more »
If you are a teacher, then you are either back to work or you can feel the last days of your summer vacation beginning to slip away. For the majority… Read more »
Because tracking has been baked into the system of schooling, it is not something that is easily reversed. At my current school, we were able to do away with the… Read more »
Almost 4 years ago, I started at a new school as a 7th grade math teacher. On the first day of school, I taught two separate sections of math class—… Read more »
Listening to understand far outweighs listening to respond. In this increasingly chaotic atmosphere of divisive rhetoric, we must admit that we do not have all the answers. Rather than respond… Read more »
It’s been two years since the #blacklivesmatter movement appeared after the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the unjust murder of Trayvon Martin. In that same time, the media began to… Read more »