New study shows teachers earn less now than in 1999
Back in the day, teachers earned more than other comparable workers, but now shrinking education budgets and subsequent cuts in teacher pay place them behind their peers. According to a new study by...
View ArticleMister Green's Ad Hoc Lesson in Self-descriptive Nouns
Recently I was substitute teaching in a fourth-grade classroom in my alma mater elementary school where I went to elementary school. I was in the classroom that was formerly Mister Gibb’s fifth-grade...
View ArticleA Teacher's Thoughts on Mindfulness for these Anxiety-Inducing Times, in and...
This began with my observation that I’m noticing more mental health challenges recently and wondering what I might be able to do for the students I see that would both help the suffering and immunize...
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Trump's Yoyo Regulations on School Lunch
This article is cross-posted at Parents Across America Oregon.This is an update of an article that I wrote several years ago and have updated a couple of times since. It originally appeared on the...
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Indigenous Peoples Day, Monday Oct. 14, you can watch online free a 2018...
An activity in observance of our next Greater United States' national holiday, Indigenous Peoples Day Oct. 14 @ 3pm EDT/noon PDT, is watching a Free online screening of the 2018 Emmy-winner...
View ArticleWhy I Support Keeping the New York State Regents Examinations
Why I Support Keeping New York State Regents Examinations.If you attended public high school in New York State you undoubtedly took regents examinations, tests that go back to the 1865 (See a history...
View ArticleMeasure School Success by Young People’s Voting Rates and Reasoning, Not...
My faith is being severely tested. I’m not talking about God. Instead, it is my belief as a lifelong educator that schools can help children to become caring adults with a commitment to social...
View ArticleIt’s Difficult Teaching about Slavery Because Racism Continues
In 1973, working in a summer camp program, I taught my worst history lesson ever. I am white and I was the counselor for a group of middle school students who were all African American. We were writing...
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Praise for a Second Grade Teacher
Sometimes it isn’t the obvious person who changes your life. Most people would say that it is usually the parents that have the biggest influence on a child. For me it was my second grade teacher Mrs....
View ArticleWe Don’t Need Charter Schools in New York City – the Affinity District is a...
We Don’t Need Charter Schools in New York City – the Affinity District is a Far Better Model for Children and TeachersThe New York State charter school law begins by differentiating charter and...
View ArticleTeacher suspended for showing students picture of her fiancée receives 100K...
As an elementary school art teacher in the Dallas, Texas area, Stacy Bailey introduced herself to her students with a “get to know your teacher” classroom presentation. The presentation included photos...
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Teachers: Responding to the Need.
I started drawing on the walls this year. I added “Vanquish the Virus” later. When I heard Friday morning that the school board of Los Angeles Unified was meeting to decide on school closure, I knew...
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Teachers: Reaching Our Students After The Closure
My classroom door. The notice, and that piece of orange tape, says that my room has been treated. It took me a couple of hours before I broke the tape. I know I created work for someone else....
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Best Practices for Digital Teaching & Learning-- Especially in a Hurry!
First diary here in probably a decade, so please forgive any lapses in DKos etiquette for this old-timer, but I’ve been getting calls from all of my educator networks to post these hints & tips...
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Teachers: The Earthquake, and the alarm is still ringing
Let us start by having you think of all your school emergency drills, especially those when you were very young. Most of them were fire drills, I expect. Get everybody out. Get reorganized in a...
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and that’s okay with me. Nevertheless I will take the time to write it. Yesterday completed 5 weeks since I last was in school with my students (March 13). That is 6 “school days” of Spring Break, 3...
View ArticleCalifornia's community colleges sue Betsy DeVos over exclusion of...
The California Community Colleges system has sued the Education Department over an intentional decision to block about 70,000 undocumented students, including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
View ArticleStandardized Testing during a Pandemic is Ridiculous
There is a children’s picture book You Look Ridiculous (Bernard Waber, 1966) that I really like because of the lesson that it teaches. Some things are just ridiculous and shouldn’t be done. I put the...
View ArticleProtecting a Teacher’s Citizen Rights and Freedom to Teach
Long Island News 12 reported that some Rockville Center, New York parents were accusing a high school social studies teacher of expressing anti-police opinions in class. The parents want her...
View ArticlePrivate Florida School Will Not Hire Vaccinated Teachers.
“O, that way madness lies.” — King LearThe anti-vaxxer madness has descended to a new level of insanity. Teachers at the Centner Academy in Miami have been advised against getting the COVID vaccination...
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