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What Can A Principal Do? A Lot.
I was having lunch with my husband the other day, who is starting his third year of teaching, when the subject of administrators came up—it often does. My husband was talking about his principal’s...
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All Men and Women Need to Have This Talk; Our Children Are Listening
This past year, my 10th grade English class was participating in what I call the “Guest Journal”. All they have to do is find an interesting news article, tell the class about it, and then lead the...
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The Secret To Working With Challenging Students—Part One
*This story is divided into two parts because of its length. At the end of my ninth year of teaching, I had a few teachers ask me what my secret is when it comes to classroom management. I have a bit...
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The Secret To Working With Challenging Students—Part Two
*This is part two in my story about getting my challenging students to learn. I was a few weeks into my first time teaching middle school. I had finally managed to get my students to listen, but now I...
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Creating A Space For LGBT Students
This year, I have decided to start an LGBT club for the students on my campus. Though our student population at my campus barely exceeds four hundred, we have several students that identify as Gay,...
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Cutting Teachers: How Schools Fail By Not Investing In Their Educators
Time magazine recently infuriated teachers with a cover that implied that teachers are a nasty scourge that need to be wiped out with the subtitle, “Rotten Apples”. As an educator, I have to say that...
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A Message For My Students
One of the best things about being an English teacher, is that I can have my students write and respond to multiple themes that we come upon in our reading. These writing prompts and literary...
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If I Ever Leave The Classroom
Though I have been teaching for nearly ten years now, and have enjoyed my time in the classroom, I know that I will not always be a teacher. As much as I love what I do, every year it becomes more and...
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Stop Teaching Our Girls To Be Sunbeams
This year, as my 10th grade class was reading “To Kill A Mockingbird”, I was thinking about how this is the fifth year in a row that I have taught Harper Lee’s novel, and how I have enjoyed it more...
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Hate Having Time To Yourself? Be A Teacher!
Do you absolutely hate having too much time to yourself? Do you sigh at your desk with too many hours to get your work done, and wish that people were knocking at your door every ten minutes? You...
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