It’s the first week of the 2018-19 year in my second grade classroom at Munger Mountain Elementary School, and one girl sits apart from the rest of the cla
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In 2018, GLSEN’s national school climate study indicated that 59.5% of LGBTQ students “felt unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation and 44.6%
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Read MoreTo Support Your LGBTQ+ Students, Love Them and Give Them Someone to Look Up To
Every student deserves a role model with whom they can relate. For many students, literature and curriculum are resources they can use to find role models
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This summer, my students and I learned that blue crabs are really feisty, but mosquitos are even feistier. For two weeks in June, I chaperoned a student f
Read MoreStudent Journalism Changed My Life
Every student deserves the chance to tell their story. Three years ago, to me, the daily proceedings at the vast majority of schools across my home state o
Read MoreBefore We Discuss ‘Equity in Schools,’ Tell Me What You Really Mean
To know me is to know my aversion to all things “buzzwordy.” My rule of thumb for education is that if it can fit on a bumper sticker, it’s probably no sil
Read MoreIf You’re Not Talking About Actively Disrupting Racism and Inequity in Education, You Can Kick Rocks
I watched the second round of the 2020 democratic presidential debates and I wasn’t as disappointed in the talking points as I was during the first debates
Read MoreHow Do We Bring Magic Into the Classroom? Georgia’s New Teacher of the Year Shows the Way.
For 2020 Georgia Teacher of the Year Tracey Nance Pendley, the road to teaching was not easy. Pendley’s mother was a drug addict who was in and out of pris
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