Facing a Crisis for Deaf/Hard of Hearing Students and the Profession Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Teachers continue to leave the educational profession at alarming rates – further exacerbating the teaching shortage in schools across the country. Under overwhelming teaching conditions, those who remain […]
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What A Trip to Colombia Taught Me About the US Testing Frenzy
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Testing Frenzy Déjà Vu In recent news, NAEP scores fell dramatically due to COVID-19’s impact on learning. Every media outlet has a take on the situation, and everybody seems concerned. The Secretary of Education said recently that we all need to “raise the bar and […]
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Teachers and Students Need More Mental Breaks
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! I’m sitting down to write this piece on the last official day of my fall break. Tomorrow will be the weekend rush to make sure that the house is ready for my kids and me to return to our […]
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Be a Teacher Who Votes
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! I recently learned a new statistic that deeply surprised me: In the past three midterm elections, 33% of the teachers in my state’s union did not vote. Although this generally matches or beats the state-wide voter turnout trends – 64% of […]
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Use 3 I’s to Rediscover Your Purpose for Teaching
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Recent conversations with veteran and new teachers alike have raised more than a few questions about why we choose to stay in the teaching profession. New teachers feel lost, and veterans feel overlooked. So, to all of my teacher […]
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Make Voter Registration a Priority at Your High School
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Every two to four years, we hear about the need to register young people to vote. Pundits bemoan the low turnout numbers that we see from 18 to 25-year-olds. Experts hypothesize about why they do not choose to exercise […]
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Ask The Educator’s Room: A Mindset Reset and Protecting Trans Students
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Welcome to our advice column! Today we’re helping a teacher who’s less than excited about teaching a former student. We’re also helping a teacher who is trying to support trans and gender non-conforming students at her Christian school. See what our writers have […]
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Why I’m Running for School Board (And You Should Too!)
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! In March of 2020, when the pandemic hit, I had already been contemplating retiring. I had been teaching English at a Northern California high school for 31 years, and it seemed like the end of the 2020 school year […]