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This entry was written as a guest post for Philly’s 7th Ward. Talk to anyone who has made education equity their life’s work, and you will find, more often than not, that at the root of their drive and determination is a painful, formative experience in which they were confronted with illiteracy. For some, itContinue reading “There’s nothing more woke than teaching kids how to read.”

I was recently organizing some of my old electronic files, and I ran across an old quarterly chemistry email blast that I was in charge of writing and sending to the other chemistry teachers in my school network. It was Spring 2013 and I had a blurb about the newly-finalized Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) with some links for more information. Even though our state (Pennsylvania) had not adopted them, I was still so excited! Wow, have my thoughts changed over the last 7 years. But first, some background on why I was initially so enthusiastic…

As I am about to start my 15th year of high school chemistry teaching, I have an increasing interest in helping train and develop future science teachers. I have colleagues who have worked as adjunct teaching methods professors in the evenings, so I started looking into how I could go about getting a job likeContinue reading “Should professors in teacher prep programs have K-12 teaching experience?”

*Note: Due to the confidential nature of the topics discussed in this post, I have changed and scrambled a lot of details. I have worked at 5 different schools in 2 different states, and the examples provided here are a general amalgamation of my experiences and are not specific to one school. I occasionally seeContinue reading “Are IEPs and 504s “extra work” for the teacher?”

No article about teaching has resonated with me more than this article by Jose Vilson, a math teacher in New York City with tons of accolades who is also my favorite teacher-writer. His article really spoke to the realization I had early on in my teaching career that US teachers do not have nearly enoughContinue reading “Want better teaching? Give teachers time to get work done.”