School Choice
Mike Miles Is Challenging the ‘Immutable Laws’ of Public Education, and It’s Working
For more than one thousand years, science operated under the immutable law that Earth sat at the center of the universe. When observers questioned this law, the entrenched institutions of the time...
Poverty
My Students Have Already Fought Endless Battles to Survive Before They Even Set Foot in School
Earlier this year, my first year of teaching ninth- and 10th-grade English, I taught a graphic novel called “Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty.” It tells the true and tragic tale of...
Student Voice
This Is How Far a Simple 'I Believe in You' Can Go
"I didn’t realize what I can do and that I can make a difference with my actions. Thank you for showing me that I can do something like this!” Armando, one of the leaders in the college-readiness...
Politics
3 Ways Teachers Can Lead Beyond the Classroom This Year
For the first nine years of my teaching career, my focus was within the four walls of my classroom. Everything I did had a finite goal of “How can I be better for my students today?” Many teachers...
Teaching
I Went to a Good School, So Why Am I Terrible at Math?
Math is/was/always will be my worst subject. It doesn’t matter if it’s factorials (good God, what?), statistics (it looks easy but it’s not), or even something as simple as long division—there’s...
Teaching
Here's Why I'm Defending Teach For America
Whenever I have the opportunity to share about myself, I always scan the room before sharing that “I am a TFA alumna.” I like to prepare myself for the naysayers ahead of time. Ironically, Teach For...
