Why Are Kids Killing Each Other in School?
Yesterday, another child, who was way too young to be in possession of a firearm, shot two classmates, who were way too young to be harmed by one. It was at Berrendo Middle School, in Roswell, New Mexico. Although every shooting shocks me and the rest of the country, this one was too close to […]
High turnover rates in high-poverty schools? Here’s the proof.
For the life of me, I don’t know why education “experts” ignore the role of working conditions at high-poverty DC public schools. According to the data, high-poverty DC public schools lose almost one-third of its teaching staff. How’s that a sustainable model? As a teacher who works within such a DC public school, I’ve offered four […]
So you think you can teach middle school?
Do you want to become a public middle school teacher? Do you think you have what it takes to educate the future minds of America? Do you think you can handle thirty rambunctious teenagers in a classroom? Before you sign up for this assignment, let me explain why each grade is very, very different. Let’s […]
The Triumph of Conscience, Martin Luther King Jr.
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1-14-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Smagorinsky on Authentic Teacher EvaluationSmagorinsky on Authentic Teacher Evaluation. via Smagorinsky on Authentic Teacher Evaluation.1 by plthomasedd / 22min 1-13-14 @ The Chalk Face@ THE CHALK FACE: Learning to teach reading from Whitey McWhiterson and her twin sisterI don’t mean to bring race or whatever into this. Good teaching is good teaching, right? But the reader might