Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! When I started teaching high school English twenty years ago, my main focus was on preparing my students for college. It took me years of teaching, parenthood, a graduate degree, and personal distress about our national politics to finally […]
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How to Help Unaccompanied Youth in Your School
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Who is an unaccompanied homeless youth? I’ve written previously about how, in education, we define homelessness under the McKinney-Vento Law. It is a definition that includes those living with others or in hotels due to economic hardship or emergency. […]
How I Use Apps to Improve Family Engagement
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Parent communication is one of the most critical aspects of teaching. Without it, parents will not be informed about what is going on in the classroom, and teachers can feel less supported. It can also get easily pushed aside […]
Children Don’t Avoid “Divisive” Topics, And Neither Can We
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! As a primary teacher, I had interesting and sometimes challenging conversations on a regular basis. Young children do not limit their comments and questions to what’s “age-appropriate” or what is or isn’t “divisive.” They are trying to figure out […]
Why You Should Try a No Cell Phone Policy in Your Classroom
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! If you want to try an interesting experiment, ask your students to turn up the volume on their cell phones and tally how many times in a class period their cell phones signal an alert. We tried it a […]
Five Ways Administrators Can Support Teachers
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Is it just me, or does the support offered from school administrators seem to be anything but actual support? We get the “hang in there” cat memes in our emails. We get the principal’s winking bitmoji giving us a […]
Teachers Are Burnt Out, But Students Are Too
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism!It’s no surprise that teachers are burnt out. The only word that comes to mind is, “Duh.” Recently, I have been thinking about teaching, pandemic notwithstanding, and how it got this way. How has this profession normalized working well after […]
The Dangerous Suppression of “Don’t Say Gay”
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! There is a lot of news lately about Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. But it isn’t the only one. In Indiana, there is a bill that would ban any discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in classrooms. Another […]