I have attended a lot of educator conferences this year. A common theme I heard over and over again is the challenge of teacher shortages. I decided to do my own research and looked into teacher...
Here in Minneapolis, the word around town is that South High was designed by a guy who had spent his whole career designing prisons. There are thick concrete walls and rumors of windows, though I...
When I became a history teacher, my job was to help students think for themselves: to look at multiple perspectives and to make sound and reasoned judgements based on evidence. Today’s political...
Recently I was in Dodge City, Kansas, at Red Beard Coffee on Gunsmoke Street. I walk up to a guy with a red beard—the owner—and I ask if he knows any kids I could talk with about apathy and...
A couple months ago, I heard a student at my school shout “fake news!” at friends down the hallway. It’s actually a pretty common occurrence at my Chicago school when students are told something they...
Lately, I’ve seen a meme that keeps popping up on social media: “Telling a teacher to use a boxed curriculum is like forcing a chef to cook hamburger helper.” I was tempted to like it at first; it...
