This semester, I've bought my students notebooks. Instead of submitting typed papers online, they'll be journaling by hand.
Paraprofessionals are an invaluable resource in a partnership that strengthens instructional support and enhances student success.
Earlier this year, I designed a “book tasting” for my middle school class that changed my career in a matter of days. Inspired by a National Council of Teachers of English initiative, I generated a ...
I'm a teacher who started experimenting with ChatGPT. AI helps me create study guides, bar graphs, and quizzes. The technology will never eliminate all of my duties, but it's made me a more efficient ...
Teaching in the fall semester was miserable — that frequent feeling of a student’s fingers slipping between mine, pulling away, and spiraling out into nothingness ...
When I came to Achievement First Brooklyn High School eight years ago as the ninth grade literature teacher, it was my fourth year of teaching and my first time in a school that was unapologetically ...
When I tell colleagues that, on a daily basis, the students in my classroom both use computers and engage in rich conversations about math, I am often met with skepticism. When students learn from ...
Recently, lawmakers in Iowa penned a bill that, if passed, would have required cameras in every K-12 classroom in the state. These cameras would allow parents to livestream their children’s lessons ...
In this video I respond to a comment questioning whether my class prepares students for college. As a recent college graduate and current teacher, I explain how I use my own classroom rules to help ...