If you had the pleasure (or displeasure) of teaching online during the Pandemic, you may not have developed a fondness for that medium. When I think about my classroom experience during that time, I certainly didn’t. All I can recall are…
Mark Garcia isn’t your average new teacher—he’s a hometown hero with a trumpet in one hand and a vision in the other. As a fresh-faced music educator at Rialto High School, Mark is on a mission to transform his alma mater’s m…
Today, I'm sharing a story that's giving Romeo and Juliet a run for their money—minus the tragic ending and theatrical teen drama. Instead of Montagues versus Capulets, it's Democrats versus Republicans—in my house. And let me tell you, …
Why do we send our children to school? To learn stuff? What stuff? Who decides which “stuff” is important and which can be set aside? How do we know they learned this stuff? In the long past, education meant learning which plants w…
First, this is just my opinion—for what that's worth, it’s the opinion of someone who’s been in the classroom for 33 years. I don’t know how students view grades in elementary school, but I get the feeling that parents are mo…
Go search on Google “number of new teachers who quit,” and you’ll find pages and pages (115,000,000 results in the search I did) of statistics that all read about the same: “Close to half of the teachers with five or fewer ye…
A recent article in “The 74” caught my attention this week. It discussed how Tennessee and Michigan are currently debating removing the statute regarding retaining third graders who can't read at grade level to be retai…