“Old” in my twenty-nine years isn’t much, I’ve gathered, yet when I think about the dreams I’ve had about my classroom environment versus the classroom I stand in today, you’d think it was a vastly different time, not a little over a decade apart. It is a vastly different time, I’ve learned. Vastly. Different. With […]
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Using editorials to engage students in writing in middle and high school
As a high school English teacher, it was nothing for me to grade 120 five-paragraph essays every week. If it was a particularly rigorous unit, you find me wading through five to seven-page literary analysis in my Advanced Placement Literature class. If I was quick, I could have the papers graded within a two-week period. […]
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Middle School Summer Reading List
As educators, we are responsible for cultivating an inclusive learning environment that values and celebrates diversity. One powerful way to achieve this is by providing students with a diverse reading list that exposes them to different cultures, experiences, and perspectives. Here is a reading list specifically curated for your middle school summer reading list. Each […]
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Use the World Cup to Score Higher Engagement with Middle Schoolers
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Studies have shown over and over again that students learn best when they find the content relevant and engaging. Lately, I’ve found my middle school students to be super engaged with the World Cup. Rather than repeating, “Guys, please […]
Posted inOpinion
Parents, Stop Treating Your Child’s Teacher Like the Enemy
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! When I tell people I’m a teacher, I often get a response along the lines of “I don’t know how you deal with those kids all day” or “You must have a lot of patience.” My response: “The kids […]
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Yes, I’m Exhausted But Here Are 5 Reasons To Love Teaching
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! The national teacher shortage is worsening with each passing day. The life-long, 30+ year teaching profession is a phenomenon that is nearly extinct. Teachers have more work and higher expectations now than ever before. Students study a more rigorous […]
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How to Incorporate Social-Emotional Learning Into Any Content Area
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Whether it’s unregulated and disruptive behavior or an overall malaise with regard to school, it’s clear that many kids are not all right, and parents and educators are taking notice. Some students are struggling to compensate for losses sustained over nearly […]
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Finally An Afrofuturist Textbook!
An Interview With the Editor of Conjuring Worlds Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Afrofuturism is highly-desired, but frequently a missing puzzle piece in many English Language Arts curriculums. B. Sharise Moore, a veteran educator and author of Dr. Marvellus Djinn’s Odd Scholars, hopes to change […]