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Grading President Biden’s Proposed Educational Budget for 2024

There is no doubt that, as educators, we have strong opinions about how the government spends money geared toward education.  Teachers and our students require a never-ending list of things to make classrooms adequate and student success attainable.  Unfortunately, not an infinite amount of funding is set aside for our student’s educational future.  Decisions, and […]

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A Teacher Lost in the Dust

I am sitting in the back of the school bus. Waves rock my body as we navigate the red sandy-washed roads. I’ve been riding in traditional yellow buses just about my whole life as a student, teacher, and chaperone. This time is different. Traditional Navajo songs echo through the bus, intermittent with the news Dine’ […]

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Paving the Way: Teacher Modeling to Improve Student Writing

by Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar, Ed.D. Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar is an associate English professor at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania teaching first-year writing and secondary education English classes. She previously worked for fifteen years as an English teacher in Delaware public schools. She received her Doctorate of Education in Educational Leadership with a Literacy Specialization from the […]