Monday, July 18, 2011

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Urgent: How do we create the best environment for US teachers to teach?

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Urgent: How do we create the best environment for US teachers to teach?

Urgent: How do we create the best environment for US teachers to teach?


My goal is to encourage and inspire teachers and part of that goal is to speak out for the nobility of our profession. I've been posed a question by a major media outlet and after a bit of back and forth (during which I disclosed that I'm a private school teacher NOT a public school teacher), I was reminded that beyond my own classroom I am a writer and encourager of teachers of all kinds.

Because of this, I need to URGENTLY hear from some of you US public school teachers. I know what you've told me. I know what you email me, but now, I want to hear from YOU. Everywhere everybody is writing about teachers but how many of them actually teach in any location or anywhere?

This is about what can be done to improve teaching IN YOUR CLASSROOM. (I'm not going to hit the political