Teaching

For 2020 Georgia Teacher of the Year Tracey Nance Pendley, the road to teaching was not easy. Pendley’s mother was a drug addict who was in and out of pris

A few weeks ago, I attended a conference called Educator Summit in Philadelphia. I’m not much of a conference attendee and didn’t know exactly what to expe

The media is all over Cardi B for making a video with democratic socialist candidate Bernie Sanders. People who don’t know her are quick to dismiss her as

I was beyond excited when I accepted my first teaching position. I had worked hard all of those years, completed my student teaching, passed the certificat

I admire teachers who adopt an attitude best summed up by President Harry S Truman, who famously had a sign on his desk that said: “The buck stops here.” I

If we have really well-prepared young people who are going to the exact college they want to go to, who will graduate from college within six years with li

Five years ago, I was named Minnesota’s Teacher of the Year.  The months and years following are a time in my life I now refer to as my “crisis of ego.” I

Because we want our children and grandchildren to be ready for college, NAACP members like me have chosen tuition-free public charter schools. But instead

In my ideal world, summer would be a time for educators to relax and catch up with family and friends and culture, but that’s not economically feasible for