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Ask the Educator’s Room: What do I do if a student won’t stop lying?

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Welcome to The Educator’s Room advice column for teachers! Today we’re helping a teacher who is desperate to quit the club she runs. We’re also helping a teacher who’s a student is lying pathologically. See what our writers have […]

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Ask The Educator’s Room: What do I do about all my absent teachers?

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Welcome to The Educator’s Room advice column for teachers! 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 […]

Posted inOpinion

The Solution to Burnout is Solidarity

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! In Minnesota, nurses recently ended a three-day strike. They’re highly trained professionals, mostly women, who are tired of being underpaid and overworked. Sound familiar? Educators know this experience all too well.  In recent weeks, the “teacher shortage crisis” has loomed […]

Posted inCurrent Events in Education

Columbus City Teachers’ Strike Diary: Back to School in the Strike’s Aftermath

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Finding myself in a strike at the close of summer set me on a journey of uncertainty, turbulence, trust, and solidarity. I wrote about the start of it in  Columbus City Teachers’ Strike Diary: Voting and Picketing. Those first […]