“Eighteen, 19, 20!” I shouted as I raced my older brother to the top of the stairs. “First!” I took great pride in pushing past and beating him to the last step, even if he had moved over to let me...
Hey Shawnta! My principal started the year by showing us student data from last year. It was bad. All we were told was 'do better.' No real strategies, just a lot of teacher bashing. What do I do...
I closed my eyes, waiting anxiously for Mr. T to announce today’s American History lesson, hoping that we would be moving on to a new topic. I cringed as I heard the familiar phrase, “We’re going to...
When we ask someone to do a job, we usually give them the tools to get it done. Not so in teaching, where more than half of U.S. teachers create learning materials on their own. Even as publishers...
As we begin another school year–buying the sequined backpacks, scraping the neglected God-knows-what from the inside of lunchboxes, scrambling for a spot in the least-sucky afterschool option–let’s...
