Teaching
It Takes a Good School Leader to Know When a Teacher Is Struggling
Last year I went from managing students in the classroom to managing adults. That shift was just as hard as the one from managing myself in college to managing 150 students after I graduated and...
student achievement
I Almost Let My Own Issues Get in the Way of My Student Killing It at a Talent Show
From the jump of my educational career I’ve always identified with the troubled students, the outcasts and troublemakers. I gravitate toward them and desperately try to help. I want to keep them from...
Teaching
I Did Everything I Could to Reach This Student But I Still Lost Him to the Streets
Three years ago this September, Marquise* walked in on the opening day of school at Baker College Prep and carried himself with the quiet confidence of a lion with its pride. He was short and skinny,...
