Sarah Styf

Sarah Styf is a 19-year high school English teacher. She lives in the Indianapolis area with her husband and two children. She is passionate about literacy, education reform, and increasing civic engagement.
Posted inOpinion

It’s Time to Shelve Summer Reading

by Sarah Styf

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Our department spent the month of May preparing and presenting our summer reading assignments to every high school student. We talked about our educational goals for the next school year. We shared advice and insight into how the selected […]

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How Green Energy Can Transform Schools

by Sarah Styf

It’s Time to Bring Education Infrastructure into the 21st Century Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! We were living in Houston in February 2021 when a string of disastrous winter weather hit. We watched as the entire state slowly shut down over the course of a […]

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History Matters in Schools. Here’s How I Taught it in my English/Language Arts Classroom

by Sarah Styf

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Early in my teaching career, I attended a challenging and eye-opening conference on Holocaust education hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I had taught Holocaust literature since the beginning of my career, anchoring most of my Holocaust units in […]

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What E-Learning During COVID Should Have Taught Us

by Sarah Styf

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! I remember the first time I became dependent on e-learning for instructional purposes. It was the winter of 2014. The snow started falling right before we were supposed to return from our Winter Break. Nearly every school in our region called […]