With the recent push for self-care, people have been encouraged to take mental health days to take care of themselves. Physical health is just as important as mental health, so wouldn’t students benefit from mental health days? Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon, signed legislation last month that will allow students to take mental health days…
For some reason, in education, we have a bad habit of repeating past programs but expecting different outcomes. Desegregation busing is a solution being touted again that I do not want to see repeated during my lifetime again or at any other point in the future. The desegregation busing debating came to the forefront during…
Social media has been around for a while now. Yes, it seems like in every professional development workshop you go to some facilitator is making big money to tell you how new and uncharted social media is, but it isn’t 2009 anymore. Grandparents and elementary students are on Facebook and Instagram. In general, most people…
When I hear my parents and their siblings reminisce about their time in school during K-12, one common theme I hear was how many of them had the same teachers. Teachers did not change jobs much. They may even have retired from the school where they were first hired. Those days are long gone. Even…
If you ever see my resume or read my LinkedIn profile, you might notice a commonality between all the schools where I have been employed. I live on the northwest side of Indianapolis, and all the schools listed on my resume have either been on the northwest or west side of Indy with the exception…
The Carmel Clay School district is in the midst of a well-documented bus driver shortage. After trying to find drivers through conventional means to no avail, they have resorted to using teachers. They offered teachers up to $18K more to take on the additional responsibility of driving kids to and from school. Luckily for…
We are in the prime of summer. The days are warm, and children are in the streets playing with their friends. Maybe, they are cooling off in the pool. With each passing day, we are a day closer to the beginning of the next school year. Instead of scrambling around at the last moment, get…
On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, over 100 people attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Pike Township’s brand new early learning center. The early learning center was named in honor of former Pike Township Superintendent Dr. Nathaniel Jones. Dr. Jones served as Superintendent in Pike Township from 2003-2016. He was one of the longest-serving Superintendents in the…
Teacher pay seems to be one of those issues that everyone has an opinion. You may have a chance to voice that opinion in the near future. Governor Eric Holcomb is sending his teacher compensation commission across the state of Indiana to hold three hearings on the subject of teacher pay and compensation. There will…
Student loan debt is by most accounts out of control. Many people all over the country are saddled with more student loan debt than they can possibly pay off. Luckily, some public service professions offer student loan forgiveness after a certain number of years. Teaching is supposed to be one of those professions. However, many…