Co-opting Courage
Teachers who are passionate about their work and that reach a level of accomplished practice deserve to be paid a competitive salary. However, the…
5 Minutes
Tool Review: Head Over Heels in Love with Screencastify
One of the struggles that I've always had as a teacher is differentiating instruction in my room. The truth is that while I believe in targeting…
5 Minutes
Does Moving Money From Prisons to Schools Really Make Sense?
Will we forever be stuck shaking our heads at the annual cost to lock up a prisoner compared to the annual cost to educate a child and saying that…
7 Minutes
Welcome to the Questionsphere
For the past 20 months, I've been working in the field of education policy, where the rules are set by legislative mandate. Writing interpretation…
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Make Some Noise
We teachers do have a moral and professional responsibility to acknowledge and correct discrimination in our own practice and classrooms, as well as…
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Making Room for Uncertainty in the Required Curriculum
Poking through my feed reader this morning, I stumbled across a Mindshift KQED article that I think every educator ought to read. Titled How to Spark…
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Teacher Leader Vignette: The Traveling Teacher
Inspired by the book Flip the system: Changing education from the ground up, many of our Mount Holyoke College teacher leader Master's students…
8 Minutes
Relationship: The Stealth Reform
Our schools were not built to address poverty as it stands today. In my city the rate of child poverty in the 1940s-1950s was closer to 20% than the…
7 Minutes
Are YOU Standing Up for Tolerance?
Fair warning, y'all: I'm about to ask you a few uncomfortable questions. Here we go. First question: How did you feel when Donald Trump -- media…
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Picturing Fairness, Equity, and Access
Which is more fair: grading on a curve or on a straight scale? Which is more equitable? Do all students in an open-enrollment district really have…
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