Inspired By Teaching

This woman must be friends with Rita Pierson.  We need to celebrate these teachers that are talking about student voice and connection to our children.

She is so right! We are just talking about what to teach and what to test.  Let’s pay attention to the teachers who champion our kids.

This is an interesting piece on the addition of non-fiction to secondary English classes.  Exposing our kids to the writings of history is a positive thing if our goal is to create engage citizens.  Balance is key, but I think we are on the right track.  What do you think?

We keep talking about the achievement gap, but the gap will only get wider until we remember the “the varied richness of human ability.”  That’s what works!

I have been teaching since 1987.  Being in a classroom is where I want to be, but I get discouraged when I open the newspaper and read about our country’s troubles with education.  So instead, I don’t read the newspaper as much as I should, and I just close my classroom door, and I smile at the faces in front of me because I am inspired by teaching and touching lives with what I know.