Teaching

Puberty is hard. Teaching it ain’t easy either. Still, those “what happens to my body” conversations are a perfect test-case for why school is pretty impor

I’m still less than a year into my new role as a teacher coach specializing in supporting first-year teachers, but here are four things that have stood out

Last week I got an email that one of my son’s two kindergarten teachers, Ms. Ashley, is starting her maternity leave and he’s getting a new co-teacher for

In a recent statement to Congress, Betsy DeVos, the nation’s education chief, made the following statement: Students may be better served by being in large

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” I have pondered over this Laurel Ulrich quote for several years after hearing it, and especially during Women’s H

In our society, there are so many hot takes offered each day that it’s almost impossible for any single statement to cut through the clutter. As a result,

Our guest for this episode is Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ). We discuss the NCTQ’s surprising findings in their r

Imagine teaching a classroom of 25 students. It’s an English class. You have to assign an essay based upon a grade-level text and are planning how to accom

White people get big mad when you force them to think about White people. I knew this. I know this. Also, they will almost never say, “I’m mad because you