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Free Breakfast for Every Student Just Makes a Lot of Sense
Every day, I strive to create a positive, welcoming and equitable learning environment where my students can be themselves, access instruction in meaningful ways and…
I #LoveTeaching Because I Help Connect My Students to Worlds Outside the Classroom
In just a few minutes over my lunch break this past week, a group of 12-year old girls affirmed exactly why I #LoveTeaching! It all…
Here’s How We Made Sure My Student’s Dying Father Didn’t Miss Her Graduation
#LoveTeaching Week is a grassroots campaign started by teachers in 2015 as an opportunity to celebrate teaching, leading, and learning in a way that unites…
You Know You Love Teaching When You’re on Maternity Leave and Stop to Talk to a Former Student
#LoveTeaching Week is a grassroots campaign started by teachers in 2015 as an opportunity to celebrate teaching, leading, and learning in a way that unites…
Here’s Why I’ve Joined Teachers Calling For an End to Detaining Children at Our Border
From the deepest core of my being, I am a teacher against child detention. To choose to separate children from their families for political reasons…
Before Trump Jr. Calls Me a ‘Loser Teacher,’ How About He Steps Inside My Classroom?
It was in my junior English III class during third period when I observed two junior girls, on fundamentally opposite sides of the political aisle,…
How Our Rural School Is Closing the Opportunity Gap and Preparing the Next Generation of Teachers
Teacher shortages in Wisconsin, and across the country, have a stranglehold on the profession. Enrollment in educator prep programs in Wisconsin is down 30 percent.…
We Have to Treat Every Student Like They’re Our Own, That Includes Transgender Students
Our job is about a promise to every parent who leaves their child with us. We promise to watch over their children and teach them.…
December Can Be Tough. Let’s Bring Empathy and Grace Into Our Schools in the New Year
Everyday moments have the power to transform our thinking around the most important ideas in education. I was stopped cold in my tracks by just…
Yes, I’ve Been Hit by Students, But I Still Believe Suspensions and Expulsions Are Not the Answer
Betsy DeVos wants to end the Obama-era discipline guidance that addresses the over-suspension and expulsion of students of color. Betsy DeVos is wrong. And I…
