Hello! This is Mr. McGuire at Tindley Summit. How are you doing today? Sorry to bother but do have a moment to talk about your scholar’s behavior today at school? Ok great! He has been sent down to the office twice today for not following directions. He was asked to sit in his seat and…
Purdue Polytechnic High School (PPHS) is a public charter school partnered with Purdue University. It opened Fall 2017 in the Union 525 building. Currently, it is located downtown on the fourth floor of Circle Center Mall. The downtown campus will relocate to the Mallory Building on the near east side for the 2020-21 school year….
There is an old African proverb that says, “It takes a village to raise a child.” If we want to raise our school children properly, it will most certainly take the entire community. As a school, we can’t depend on the local, state, or federal government to take ownership of our school issues. It is…
Monday, May 6 – Friday, May 10 is Teacher Appreciation Week. Being a black educator, I was curious to know if anyone felt a black educator had made a difference in his or his life. Eric Williams, a former student of Arlington High School, shared that Mr. Roosevelt Griffin, a black Economics teacher, made a…
Teachers and students are getting ready to wrap up the remainder of the school year. Before the school year wraps up, we need to stop and thank our teachers. Teacher Appreciation Week happens at a perfect time. The end of the year can be intense, but if a teacher hears how much he or she…
As a current librarian and a former English teacher and literacy coach, my heart’s desire is for all children to loving reading and for all children to have the internal motivation to read. Over my career, parents have told me I was the reason their child started reading. I have heard, “My child never finished…
For some reason, comic books are seen by some as not real reading material. Graphic novels get lumped into this category too. As a current elementary librarian and a former literacy coach and English teacher, I am here to make this clear: Reading comic books is real reading. We tell children we want them to…
If you are a teacher then you know that contrary to popular belief, we don’t have a “bunch of time off.” True, we technically get more time off compared to other jobs, but in order to really be effective, we have to put in a lot of required work outside of actual working hours. Chief…
Most schools have a month or less left of the school year. As parents, it is easy to join in with our children and count the days until the end of the school year. We want it to be over because the end of the year can be intense. At this time, there tend to…
“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” – An African Proverb If you have ever seen Black Panther, then you understand the above quote. Killmonger had no love for his homeland because he remembered how his homeland neglected him. He desired to have love and…