The Broken Teacher Re-focused
Teaching is easy! Teachers get 9 weeks off for the summer, two weeks off around the winter holidays, a week…
Change your Life in 2017: Travel Opportunities for Teachers
I’m going to go ahead and shoot myself in the foot and widen the competition pool for grants and fellowships…
Teaching Analogies and Christmas Reunions: A Manifesto about the Profession
“Must be nice to have so much time off!”: this is the most frequent sentence I hear from friends…
I Wonder
I Wonder After spending a several days serving on jury duty, I began to wonder about a few school policies…
We Are All Jason
Dedicated to Kate Gilbert. There is a way to be good again. Anyone who’s read the Kite Runner by Khaled…
All I Want is a Comma for Christmas
This past week I went to lunch with a large group of teachers on my staff. We spent the usual…
School Images Matter: What Do They Say?
You’ve heard the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words,” right? I believe this is true and especially important…
The Broken Teacher
This blog was inspired by Jess Ledbetter’s November blog entitled, Pressures of Teaching: Decreasing our Effectiveness? It’s definitely a serious…
Reality Check for English Language Learners
Snippets of surreptitious conversational Spanish dart around the classroom amid scattered outbursts of giggles. I review the color-coded highlighting…
