By: Shannan C. Rose Testing day, observations, curriculum plans, differentiation, team meetings, and PD’s to help you in the classroom, but are these really helping? The stressors and time management feel hopeless for most teachers. Educators have had to learn and engage students differently, let alone the learning gaps to bring students to grade level. […]
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Communication – Simple, Respectful, Can Be the Achilles Heel for Special Needs Parents
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.” – Horace, Roman Poet The power of the pen wields so much more than just getting one’s voice into the world. And we all know how powerful the tongue is. Proverbs 18:21 puts it this way: “The tongue has the power of life and death” (Bible, New International […]
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“This Book Saves Lives!” Why You Should Teach The Stars Beneath Our Feet.
In my eighth-grade English Language Arts classroom, reading was an experience. It was an opportunity to connect, express, discuss, motivate, and debate. No book demonstrated this more than The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore. There will be NO spoilers in this piece (well nothing that you can’t find out by reading the […]
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How to Quit Teaching in 2022
Part 1: Preparing for Your Search Is quitting teaching one of your new year’s resolutions? You’re not alone. Teacher attrition has always been a problem in education. Now teachers are in the midst of a pandemic and a battle over a historically accurate, anti-racist curriculum. If you’re ready to quit teaching in 2022, I want to […]
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A Teacher Lost in the Dust
I am sitting in the back of the school bus. Waves rock my body as we navigate the red sandy-washed roads. I’ve been riding in traditional yellow buses just about my whole life as a student, teacher, and chaperone. This time is different. Traditional Navajo songs echo through the bus, intermittent with the news Dine’ […]
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9 Fresh Voices in Education You Need to Hear in 2022
As the year winds down, it’s important for educators to continue to use their voices to help amplify the voices of those in the trenches. From classroom teachers to retired educators- these are the voices we want to hear more from in 2022. Deidra Fogarty- Founder of Black Girls Teach Black Girls Teach is a […]
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On Feeling Flat: Teachers in 2021
Bridgette Gallagher is a high school English teacher in Saratoga Springs, NY where she has worked for the past 20 years teaching grades 9,11, and Creative Writing. In addition to being a teacher leader, she also serves as the Vice President of Secondary for the New York State English Council. We’re here. We love kids. […]
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Opinion: How Teachers Triumph Over Trauma When Battling Trauma Ourselves?
“Can I talk to you?” As educators, we are taught to prioritize being the ones to provide others with a safe space, trusted adult, and potentially be that one voice who can talk someone off a literal edge of a breakdown. But what happens when we need the same for ourselves? As a colleague, we […]