March 7, 2023 You must have heard about the debacle with the AP African American History class. Rest assured, I am not going to rehash it. Instead, this wholly predictable
January 16, 2023 At my last dentist appointment, the hygienist did a couple of novel things: she cleaned my teeth differently—with air and water—and she also checked my blood pressure.
December 16, 2022 Last year in an advanced English class, a student came to office hours in deep angst. If she were a whistling kettle, she would have been emitting
November 7, 2022 It’s been two months now since the school year began. We’ve all facilitated and attended Back to School nights and the opening of the year socials, so
Aug. 2, 2022 As an English/humanities high school teacher or school librarian, aren’t you tired of creating and circulating the dreaded summer reading list? Almost every school’s English department has
June 7, 2022 Choose a topic and conduct an internet search. The Wikipedia article on that topic is typically within the top 10, if not top 5, results. Because of
May 9, 2022 One’s discomfort with any form of difference shouldn’t come at the expense of another person’s ability to survive and thrive as their authentic self. As humanities teachers
A few questions all of us who work in educational institutions must ask ourselves: What kind of adults do we want our students to become? How do we ensure that
January 18, 2022 In the field of education, we think too narrowly about feedback. We think it is the comments we leave on student work. We ensure that the comments
Should I let my students read on a device? Given recent concerns over the cognitive load of screen time, lower cognitive performance of excessive screen time, the addictive nature of