In a series of new efforts, the U.S. Departments of Education and Labor announced to expand Registered Apprenticeships for educators and invest in teacher preparation programs. The efforts focus on a key focus area of the Department of Education’s Raise the Bar: Lead the World initiative to improve learning conditions by eliminating educator shortages. “Teacher apprenticeships are […]
Franchesca Warren
For fifteen years Franchesca taught English/Language Arts in two urban districts in Atlanta, Georgia, and Memphis, Tennessee. Increasingly frustrated with decisions being made about public education from people who were not in the classroom, in 2012 she decided to start a blog about what it was really like to teach in public schools. In the last four years, The Educator's Room has grown to become the premiere source for resources, tools, and strategies for all things teaching and learning. To learn more about Franchesca Warren's work, please visit www.franchescalanewarren.com.
Posted inEnglish Language Learners
The Headlines About Student Reading Levels are Sobering, But There’s Hope if We Change the Conditions
This morning I opened my laptop, and in my inbox, there were two article titles on reading levels that immediately gave me anxiety. Hear me out. What Teaching Secondary English/Language Arts Used to Be Like As a former High School English teacher, my goal was to make my students think critically about the world around […]
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Teacher Branding 101: Use The Summer to Strategize on Your Brand
Teacher Branding: Summer vacation is a critical time for teachers. It is time to decompress from all of the stress of the school year and realign your teaching for the new school year. Many teachers use this time to travel and “catch up” with their families, while others use the time to earn money to […]
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Black schoolteacher sues district over students’ racist behavior
by Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital DispatchJune 16, 2023 A teacher has filed a lawsuit accusing the Ottumwa school district of encouraging students’ racist behavior by failing to impose sufficient discipline for such conduct. Robert Bender is suing the Ottumwa Community School District in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, and is seeking […]
Posted inBook Review
Celebrating Juneteenth With Accuracy: Books To Use With Your Students
Juneteenth (On My Own Holidays) June 19th, 1865, began as another hot day in Texas. Africans who were enslaved worked in fields, in barns, and in the homes of the white people who owned them. Then a message arrived. Juneteenth: Freedom! Slavery had ended! The Civil War had actually ended in April. It took two […]
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Teaching Writing to Secondary Students is Hard, But It’s Necessary
During my first year of teaching, I had a brilliant student named Joshua*. Joshua was a Junior who was wise beyond his years. He loved to talk about books. He loved to debate different topics in class. However, it wasn’t until we read the cult favorite, The Color Purple, during the first nine weeks when […]
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Abbott Elementary: Development Week was a Mess!
Note: I know I’m a week late on this review. Blame it on the back-to-school season where all you can do is work-sleep-work for the first month. Abbott Elementary is back, and all is right in our world. Last week teachers around the country let out a sigh of relief as their favorite teachers: Jeanine, […]
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Frederick Douglass: “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
Click here to watch the descendants of Frederick Douglass read this speech. At the time of the delivery of this speech, Douglass had been living in Rochester, New York, for several years, editing a weekly abolitionist newspaper. He was invited to give a fourth of July speech by the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester. In […]