Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. It’s about more than tests and grades. It’s about helping kids discover themselves and the world around them. The work of a teacher, at its ...

What started as a small moment on a middle school student’s zoom screen way back in September 2021, that first pandemic school year, would change the course of my teaching in ways I could never ...

Growing up in the 1980s as the son of two passionate educators, I had a childhood that was suffused with an immeasurable respect for the role of the teacher. My father, a seasoned high school teacher, ...

Around this time four years ago, a seismic event was rippling across education. In April 2020, teachers were beginning to realize that their schools’ closures would not be all that temporary. They’d ...

A former teacher and a literacy expert team up to compile a list of products and tips to help teach kids to read.

After 14 years in education, I consider myself to be a good reading teacher. Unfortunately, the path to getting where I am today was a long, frustrating journey. Growing up, as the child of two ...

I never planned on being a teacher, but sometimes, life has other plans for you. I entered the profession in 2019 when I earned my CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages ...

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I have often cleaned up after my 11-year-old son rather than wait for him to do it. Though I did ask him to do his chores, I felt it was easier to do it myself. A back injury has forced us both to ...

Comedian Steve Martin once said that teaching is like show business. I try to keep this in mind when I’m giving college lectures. But what happens when the entertaining professor gets upstaged by a ...