When I realized that the corona virus pandemic was here to stay and the numbers of people who contacted this disease was increasing, I ta...

When I first began teaching, the arts were part of elementary school students' daily curriculum. However, tight budgets, high stakes test...

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Pardon my candor, but there’s a reason why the kids just don’t like you. At first, I couldn’t understand the dynamics of certain teachers...

In my first few years of teaching, student talking was like popcorn. I gave the class instructions for some kind of work; let’s say journ...

Every child deserves a champion—an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they b...

Reading, Writing, and Math skills are not enough. We need 21st century skills. The old-school model of passively learning facts and recit...

Good teachers might make it look easy, but it isn’t at all, and the fact that a lot of people assume that it is can be disappointing an...

Poetry is a powerful genre that allows children to develop language and literary competence, critique texts, and recreate stories using t...