Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and several others were tragically killed in a helicopter accident last week. Normally, I would have started that sentence with a hook like, “unless you have been living in a cave or under a rock…” but I truly believe there is nowhere you could have been and not heard about his…
High school seniors all over the country are anxiously awaiting their college acceptance letters. Many students will find that they’ve been accepted to multiple colleges. Typically, students apply to a few different schools and when they get their letters conventional wisdom says to pick the “best” one… with best usually referring to academic reputation. This…
The fight for Pre-K is underway across the country. Parents, educators, and policymakers all over are clamoring for high quality early learning programs claiming that the benefits of preschool are too great to be ignored. A federal-funded program study has corroborated their claims. A recently released report has found that preschool expansion yields academic gains….
“I’m not here to be liked.” This is a refrain that can be heard in classrooms across the nation. Usually right after a student says something along the lines of “I hate you” or “That’s why nobody likes you.” There are of course multiple variations of this refrain, too. The “I don’t need to be…
When I first started teaching, around 2011, a new social media platform called Pinterest was all the rage. The basic idea is that each user would be able to create and save (pin) content to their boards. This site took off with many people, especially teachers. Almost overnight, teachers found an outlet and an audience…
The news has been quite sensational lately. As teachers, oftentimes, our first instinct is to hide the news under the guise of “protecting them” from the real world. We may strategically avoid or even straight up ignore current events, but this isn’t the right approach. It doesn’t work. Students are more connected to the world…
Teacher pay has been at the forefront of the conversation lately. Teacher unions and lawmakers have been sparring back and forth all over the country about just how much compensation teachers deserve. Most people have seen this play out on the news and at their statehouses. What a lot of people do not know is…
If you are a parent of a school-age student, then you have likely heard them complain about all of the time they have to spend in school. Like most parents, you probably brushed this off as nothing more than adolescent bellyaching. But guess what? They’re right. In many places, the school day is too long….
It’s no secret the cost of childcare is expensive and still rising. The average annual cost of childcare in America ranges from $4,000 to $22,600 depending on location and age according to the Economic Policy Institute. This makes the cost too expensive for many families to afford. Relief for those families comes in the form…
It’s that time of the year again. It’s winter, or as teachers and students think of it, snow-day season. When the weather outside is frightful, teachers and students alike gather around the TV to look at the ticker on the bottom of their choice of newscast. Of course, the hope is to see the name…