The contents of this article may seem obvious, but when I was a new teacher fresh out of college, no one went over the basics of living as an adult with me. My parents passed away shortly after I started my teaching career, and I had to learn these financial survival skills from the school […]
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[Episode 55] Breaking Through The Shame: Going Through A Divorce
In this episode, Franchesca Warren interviews Traci H., writer/educator and her experiences of going through a divorce while teaching. In this interview they discuss: the shame of the word divorce how to handle teaching a classroom of 35+ students and a heated divorce what to expect during the divorce process if you should tell your administrator […]
Going Through a Divorce While Teaching? Here’s Some Steps to Overcoming
Imagine this. You work 60 hours a week as a teacher, full-time parent, and devoted spouse. You spend your nights grading papers, checking your kid’s homework and making sure your spouse is ready for their day at work. You operate like this for close to a decade until you come home and like a “smack […]
Raising Boys' Achievement Involves More Male Teachers
It’s no shock to any reader – teacher or parent – to learn that boys are not just falling behind, they’re sinking. In the middle school where I teach, of our nearly 1,100 students, roughly 80% of the special education students are male. More than 2/3 of the students failing classes are male. More than […]