Free Technology for Teachers: Posters, Pictures, and Leftovers
Very good morning from Maine exactly where yesterday it felt like winter season and today it feels like spring. My family members is intended to go see the Xmas lights show at the Boothbay Botanical Gardens this night, but the rain may possibly dampen…
Free Technology for Teachers: The True Costs of Owning a Car
I compensated $1500 for my first auto. That was a significant sum for me again in the fall of 1996. That car necessary a small little bit of brake function to pass the state’s protection inspection and then it required about a dozen other minimal…
Why Did We Stop Hearing About the Teachers Making Millions on Teachers Pay Teachers?
It was 2012, and Kristin Rivera was going through a difficult time. Her husband had lost his job, leaving Rivera to provide for her family of four on her modest income as an elementary school teacher. They foreclosed on their Georgia home and moved into…
Free Technology for Teachers: How Airplanes Fly
I’m currently reading Bill Bryson’s book, One Summer: America, 1927. The book is centered around significant events of that summer including Charles Lindbergh’s crossing of the Atlantic. Airplanes have come a long way since Lindbergh…
Introverts Can Be Good Teachers, Too. We Just Need a Moment of Silence.
I have often been an introvert. Don’t get me mistaken, I like folks, but like most introverts, I inevitably access a stage when the lights go off. You can see it in my glazed-more than eyes, fifty percent-snicker and glances toward the classroom doorway,…
Our students are experiencing trauma. We teachers need training to help them cope.
A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine stepped into our suburban high school’s library, sat down and took a deep breath before slumping her shoulders and opening up her laptop. I could tell that something was bothering her. I know the look of helplessness…
How school districts and states are trying to attract teachers during the pandemic
When hiring recently for an elementary school teacher position, Superintendent Randy Squier noticed far fewer applicants than his upstate New York school district would normally receive. “We would often see 120 applicants for an elementary…
Chicago Public Schools’ reopening remains in limbo as talks break down between mayor and teachers union
Chicago Public Schools and Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Saturday jointly rejected the latest proposal from the Chicago Teachers Union in the ongoing dispute over whether remote learning should resume amid the latest surge in COVID cases fueled by the Omicron…
‘We have to be agile’: School closures rise again as more teachers and students test positive for omicron
First came holiday-season flight cancellations and now come short-term school closures and virtual learning. COVID-19’s omicron variant continues to disrupt American life. Many school districts across the country, mostly clustered in the northeast, are…
American teachers are facing ‘a perfect storm’ of crises amid the coronavirus pandemic
The compounding stresses of the coronavirus pandemic, the sudden transition to remote learning, and the politicization of schools reopening are burning out teachers. “I was on the verge of leaving,” an art teacher from Connecticut, who teaches…