I know, you want to help people. Change lives! Reach out to the disenfranchised! Create educational equality in an unequal world! My goal was to do all that, and to make it through five years in teaching. More than half of our new teachers in America quit before five years. In schools with lots of […]
Read More Getting Your Sea Legs, or The Secrets of My (Wobbly, Five-Year) SuccessI guess movies about teachers are made for people who think they could never be teachers, so that they can imagine how great a challenge it would be. Like I would watch a movie about climbing Mount Everest. Real mountain climbers probably don’t spend a lot of time watching the Discovery Channel, either. They probably […]
Read More The HeightsD and I often experiment in the chemistry lab together. I have a student teacher right now, so I have the luxury of pulling out my most egregious troublemakers (like D) to give them my full attention. The chemistry lab is usually unoccupied, and right across the hall from my classroom, so that’s where exiles retreat to. […]
Read More Scenes from the Chemistry Lab
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