Teaching

Up until a few years ago, I had struggled to find my voice as a teacher. I had internalized a set of classroom management principles best summed up by the

Over the last few days, I’ve been tackling implicit bias with my eighth-graders. I mean, if Starbucks can shut down for a day to learn about it, so can we,

In my classroom there is a poster that says, “Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and never give up.” This poster is more than some frivolous decoratio

Karen Hawley Miles is the president and executive director of Education Resource Strategies, Inc. (ERS), a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that helps turn ar

The same four students hang out together in front of my classroom most mornings. One set is female and the other male. I do not have these students in my c

Military kids have a different view of the world than most American children. As they bounce from station to station, they leave behind their new friends,

I talk a lot about how our students can change the world. And I mean it. Glance at the headlines any day this week, and I guarantee you’ll see examples of

We’ve seen it happen too many times to count. Every two to three years, state and district education chiefs across the country step down and, with no succe

The wave of teacher protests in the nation’s heartland are turning much-needed attention to the desperately under-resourced public school systems of many s