Teaching

With election season upon us, like clockwork, the collective efforts to stifle the political opinions of educators has begun. Navigating this climate requi

“What’s the difference between a killing and a lynching?” The question popped up on my phone through the Google Hangouts app I installed in March. Since st

This spring, as schools limped across the virtual learning finish line, the consensus on virtual learning amongst educators was that this form of schooling

Have you ever revisited your philosophy of teaching? I don’t mean the progressive policies you ardently advocate for at faculty meetings or on Facebook; I

My children always start school two weeks before everyone else. So after two weeks of e-learning—or what I am calling two-weeks “in the trenches”—I feel li

It’s late August and school is happening from home. The pandemic has forced us to reimagine school whether we like it or not. Remote learning means that my

School buildings closed across the country last spring, and now, they are reopening. The reopening plans vary state to state, city to city, and from distri

Every year, I ask my students to identify phenomena in our world that are both imagined and real. In other words, what are some things that: Have not alway

I cried as I set up my classroom this year. This was no dainty, politely fighting-back-tears kind of cry. It was a violent, sobbing, heaving cry that start