Future Tense
It is November 9, 2016, or, as someone said earlier today, 11/9 instead of 9/11. It is first hour. I have been trying to write a personal essay about teaching...
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Privileged Expectations
A shift from “Curriculum Menu” to the “Classroom Office” As a high school teacher, things were a little different than I was used to in middle school. A couple of...
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Knowing the Why
It was my first department meeting at my new school in the school district neighboring where I had spent the last eleven years. I was being informed that, per...
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I am a Teacher and Writer
I am a teacher and writer. Or, I am a writer and teacher. Last June when campus was quiet after final exams, I sat in my classroom at a long wooden table, my palms flat...
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Not What I Imagined
The February before I began my first year teaching, I was asked to teach a series of lessons in Mrs. Smith’s seventh-grade classroom. The first lesson I...
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