My students are a far cry from being the next Bob Ross, René Magritte or Rembrandt Van Rijn. They’re a far cry from even being a starving artist in the future. But, dang it, they’re trying – and so am I.  An Assignment I Didn’t Ask For I am the Resource Director for my district […]

The U.S. Department of Education is moving forward with plans to dissolve the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), a key federal office responsible for supporting the nation’s more than 5 million English learners, as part of a broader effort to scale back and restructure the agency. The proposed closure, first communicated to Congress in […]

How many times did you visit your school library as a child? How often do you visit it now, as a teacher? For what purpose? If you ran a quick survey, you’d likely get a wide range of answers. Libraries have changed — we call them Media Centers, Information Centers, Learning Hubs — yet the […]

A controversial federal bill that would restrict access to certain materials in schools and libraries has advanced in the U.S. House, intensifying a national debate over censorship, student access, and the role of government in education. H.R. 7661, known as the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act,” was introduced in February and advanced out of […]

Some teachers assign history. Others bring it to life. For Ryan Donovan, an AP U.S. History teacher at Boulder Creek High School, the goal isn’t simply to help students memorize dates and events—it’s to help them see themselves as active participants in democracy and lifelong learners of the world around them. That philosophy has helped […]