Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! With lawmakers questioning the ability of teachers to assign appropriate books, it is baffling that some states are moving to trust school staff with firearms. One week after the school shooting in Uvalde, the Ohio House passed HB 99, a bill […]
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Wear Orange to Honor Uvalde and Too Many Others
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Why Wear Orange on June 3-5 This year, on June 3-5, I will wear orange to honor Hadiya Pendelton, a young shooting victim in Chicago, and join the movement her friends started. I first learned Hadiya’s name when I […]
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You Showed Up: Reflections On Another School Shooting
Reflections On Yet Another School Shooting Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Like so many others, I found myself sitting in my car in the school parking lot a few minutes longer than usual Wednesday morning. I didn’t know how to describe what I felt […]
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After Another School Shooting, No More Words.
A Decade of Writing from The Educator’s Room on Gun Violence in the United States Another community in the United States has been added to the roster of sites of senseless tragedy. Today it is Uvalde. Last week it was Buffalo. Before them, it was Oxford, Michigan, Parkland, Florida, Newton, Connecticut, and far too many […]
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This Is Not A Drill: The Impact Of Our New Normal
Under the handle of my classroom door is a red button. That button allows teachers to secure their classrooms from the inside. Before the red button, teachers used their keys to lock their doors from the hallway. The mechanism protects us, but during the first lockdown of the school year, my red button fails to […]
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Education News: An Arkansas School District Arms 20 Teachers
Guns and gun violence in schools have been intense topics of discussion for many years now. Â Since the shootings in Connecticut in December, 2012, some politicians and school districts have begun to entertain the idea of arming teachers and other staff within their schools. Â Last week, the administration of Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Arkansas […]