Guest Blogger
Dean of Students, Baker College Prep
Chicago, Illinois
Sean Healy is dean of students at Baker College Prep and a Teach For America alum. Previously he taught high school English for five years, three of them at Baker.
From the jump of my educational career I’ve always identified with the troubled students, the outcasts and troublemakers. I gravitate…
Last year I went from managing students in the classroom to managing adults. That shift was just as hard as…
My favorite superhero—Batman—is a failure. And if young educators take Batman as our role model, we’re likely to fail, too.…
Three years ago this September, Marquise* walked in on the opening day of school at Baker College Prep and carried…
I’ve been leading Getting NYC Kindergarten and Getting Into NYC High School workshops for New York City parents for approximately 15 years. But only since…
We barely survived my son Jonah’s adolescence. One evening in Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station he pushed me so hard I fell to the ground and…
From Maryland to Arizona, public schools report not having proper temperature control, adequate books or enough buses to ensure that children are picked up on…
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