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…
My formerly illiterate fourth-grade son is now an eighth-grader at The Windward School for Children with Dyslexia, where he learned to read. Next year, he…
I always thought I’d be a professional baseball player. It was everything that ever mattered to me—even if I couldn’t play, I knew I wanted…
I’m 36 years old. For roughly 15 years of my life, I struggled with an addiction to meth. My addiction throughout those years had several…
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