Teaching

“I didn’t realize what I can do and that I can make a difference with my actions. Thank you for showing me that I can do something like this!” Armando, one

For the first nine years of my teaching career, my focus was within the four walls of my classroom. Everything I did had a finite goal of “How can I be bet

Math is/was/always will be my worst subject. It doesn’t matter if it’s factorials (good God, what?), statistics (it looks easy but it’s not), or even somet

Whenever I have the opportunity to share about myself, I always scan the room before sharing that “I am a TFA alumna.” I like to prepare myself for the nay

What is implicit racial bias? Implicit bias is the unconscious associations and assumptions made between groups of people which affect the routine classroo

As a third-year teacher in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), I’ve already thought about leaving the profession. Since middle school, I always wanted to be a te

Teacher training in the U.S. has been a crapshoot. Because when you’re hiring first year teachers, sometimes you say “crap” and other times you say “shoot.

Since 2003, Kate Walsh has been working hard to improve the teaching force in our schools—an undisputed key to better academic performance. She’s served as

“After 30 years of doing such work, I have concluded that classroom teaching…is perhaps the most complex, most challenging, and most demanding, subtle, nua