Grades:
Middle School
What I’d Like to Tell My Students About Benchmark Testing
When it becomes too much to tow the party line.
Captain Awesome
Captain Awesome teaches seventh grade English at an urban charter school for refugee and immigrant kids. She is a big fan of books, social justice, holiday-flavored coffee creamers, righteous indignation, and Friday Night Lights.
The Perks of Being a Teacher Mom
The atomic death stare, for starters.
Somebody Should Have Told Me: What First-Year Teachers Need to Know
Let's get ready to RUMBLE!
10 Questions I Intend to Ask at My Hogwarts Interview
Unless the only open position is for Defense Against the Dark Arts... they never seem to last very long...
We’re Talking About the Wrong Education Gap. Here’s Why That Matters.
Test scores are not the answer; the quality of the learning experience is.
Grades:
Middle School
The Horrible Cycle I Go Through Every Testing Season (and That I’m in Right Now)
I call it Test Prep Darkness.
Grades:
Kindergarten
5 Things I Learned on the Kindergarten Tour
When the teacher becomes the parent.
What They Forgot to Include in My Education Degree
How to fix the %#&*ing copier. That should be a full class.
I Tried Giving My Students the Benefit of the Doubt. Here’s What Happened
We all need to give ourselves a break.
Everybody Gets a Trophy, and That’s OK
There is honor and trying and failing.
Grades:
Middle School
I Gave My Seventh Graders Power Tools (And You Should Too)!
Some assembly required.
Teachers, Please Stop Saying “I’m Not In It for the Money”
We've all heard it.
I’m Getting a Student Teacher, and I’m Scared I’ll Break Her
This is going to be interesting, to say the least...
Why I Would Never Want to Be the ESL Teacher
It all comes down to one reason ...
5 Things You Learn When You Don’t Share a First Language With Your Students
I can lip-read both Spanish and Amharic profanity from thirty yards, and that’s without my glasses.
Here’s How I Make a Student-Led Curriculum Really Work
The extra planning is sometimes arduous, I won’t lie.
