Teaching

You can stay or you can go. Whatever path you choose, know that a happy, healthy teacher is what’s best for both you and your students.

By focusing on the issue of time, we have the ability to create schools that are calmer, kinder, and saner; places where both students and teachers can maximize their potential and creativity.

Episode 2 of “Across Colors” hosted by Tanzina Vega.

Try asking better, targeted, and more specific questions when communicating with the teacher about your child. Specific questions tend to get specific answers. 

The American teacher shortage is headlining news stories and infiltrating social media, although there’s little consensus on whether this shortage is new or if it even exists. My Twitter feed is having a rumble between those who say the teacher shortage is a myth and those who point to districts like Newark, where there were 500 teaching vacancies as of June.

’ve come to accept that no matter how much I love teaching, the education system will never love me back. I’ve known this for a while but a part of me used to believe that the system would one day come through for me tenfold and reward my commitment to my students.

Music, in general, just has this uncanny ability to transmit positive vibrations throughout our bodies. But I would take it a step further by saying that there are a handful of songs that are special because they accurately convey the feelings and emotions at the core of what so many people are experiencing during a specific moment in time.

From the first day they stepped into their classrooms, educators have made personal sacrifices to help their students succeed. Whether they were purchasing school supplies with their own money or spending time outside of work writing up lesson plans, they did it with few complaints because for them, teaching was their calling.

It didn’t take long for them to ask. Just a little bit of downtime and a student approached. “Mr. Wamsted, did you hear about the shooting in Buffalo?”