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...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreIt 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreWhen my 7th period finished reading They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky, I asked them to develop discussion questions we would use for our final discussion of...
Read MoreFor many of us who teach, preplanning is that brief period of time in late summer before school hallways flood with students and when teachers are supposed to be...
Read MoreI walked down to the conference room in the back of our library around 3:00 today to sit in on our student news magazine staff’s interview with a state senator....
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