I was frustrated. Green. Knew something was wrong and didn’t know what to do about it. I’m ...
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I was a yearbook adviser for several years and was the editor of my high school yearbook ...
Mark Twain once said, “I can live for two months on a good compliment.” Teaching, as many ...
Meet Jeremy, a junior in my Spanish II class. (OK, his name really isn’t Jeremy. But that ...
Motivation is the holy grail. In education, it’s what greases the wheel. It’s what we’re all really ...
After starting this blog last year and sticking with it for about two months, I realized something ...
Robert Louis Stevenson once said, “Everyone lives by selling something.” That goes for teachers, too. We sell ...
Some questions grab our attention automatically. You know, the kind that have been asked for ages but ...
Katie Regan says that she doesn’t teach her 10th-grade enriched English class, and she’s right. She is ...
The beginning of the school year is an invigorating time. It’s full of promise, possibility, potential. I often ...
Last year, I blogged about “Jeremy,” a junior in my Spanish II class in the rural, low-income ...
Google’s 20 percent project idea has started to take education by storm. The gist of it, as ...