Instruction & Curriculum

Jonathan Blackstock is a teacher in the Georgia Mountains. Often, the motivational strategies that well-meaning administrators line up for pre-planning fail to relate to our goals in the fine arts department, but this year, our speaker offered a reason to believe in students and a way to help students believe in themselves. Marching Off The […]

“You sound like my mom.” If I had a dollar for every time a student said that to me, I would probably be rich enough to retire early! I used to laugh when students called me a “Mama Bear”, and smile at some who still call me “Auntie” to this day. These days, I embrace […]

Since 1997, Lauren Ewe has been teaching a wide array of diversified learners in secondary settings. Her current position as an educator is in higher education, instructing prospective teachers about the fundamentals of classroom management, time management, lesson planning, grading, and field-placement responsibilities during clinical internships. She also works as an education coach offering novice […]

Christy Wopat is a veteran educator and the author of the award-winning memoir, Almost a Mother: Love, Loss, and Finding Your People When Your Baby Dies, as well as a picture book titled Always Ours, released in May of 2020. She currently teaches 4th-grade and lives in Holmen, Wisconsin. Find her on Facebook at Um, […]

By: Nicole Sanderford I never wanted to be a teacher. Those around me always said, “Teachers don’t make any money,” or “Teachers hate their job.” I didn’t give a second thought to it. Of course, we all have a plan and somewhere out there, someone says, “HA! Guess again!” to that plan. Well, I went […]

I thought I would recognize the signs. I didn’t. My student, Rachel*, was fifteen years old. Although some things set her apart from her peers (she was an immigrant and spoke English as a second language), she was in many ways a typical teenager. She loved music, wore glittery t-shirts, and enjoyed laughing with her […]