Pride Month: Teachers Can Support Our LGBTQ Students’ Gender Identities
June is referred to as LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender) Pride Month, named after 1969 Stonewall Riots in GreenwichRead More…
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Teaching the Whole Child: Teachers and School Staff Must Consider Their Students’ Home Life
I want to start off by explaining that I am not a teacher, but my experience working at schools andRead More…
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360° Evaluations for Teachers: What Would Students Say About Their Teachers and Why Does that Matter?
“Oh, they’ll be fine, kids are resilient.” I’ve heard this said many times during a move, a divorce, custody situationRead More…
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Thank You to My Elementary School Teachers for Molding Me into the Civically Engaged, Strong Willed, Educated Woman That I Am Today
Since this week is National Teacher Appreciation Week, I wanted to take the opportunity to and say “Thank You” toRead More…
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Dear Teachers, Your Starfish #ThankYou
“Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing.Read More…
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Mrs. Davis-Gray, Thank You for Huatulco
You know how in The Shawshank Redemption Andy Dufresne casually mentions Zihuatanejo to Red, while they fantasize about life outsideRead More…
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I Value Teachers Unions, But I Also Question Why The Negotiation Process Isn’t More Flexible
My first few years in the classroom were in charter school settings. Given that we were “at-will employees,” the conceptRead More…
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Students Deserve an Education That Is Special: How Instructors Can Accommodate Students with Learning Differences
All students have unique learning styles that make them different from one another. Students who have been identified with specificRead More…
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Where Your Child Sits in Class Impacts His/Her Learning
For the past two years, I have been working with students who have learning differences. I have learned a lotRead More…
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El Rancho Unified Fires Military Bashing Teacher
You may recall that I wrote a piece about the teacher whose rant about the military went viral on socialRead More…
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