While visiting my family in New York, my mother asked me what I would do if I wasn’t teaching. (I may not be wording the question correctly, but it was to that effect.) All I could think was that teaching is what I know how to do and it’s what I do, and I really…
The new developments…So after getting my feathers in a bunch, it seems that we are getting a new school after all. However, it looks as though we may need to relocate first. This means we have to empty the entire school of everything we need and move to another building, only to pack it up…
I just received my copy of Teaching Tolerance‘s magazine (Spring 2009) and I was both inspired by and happy to read the article called “Crossing the Gap” about students from the South Side of Chicago who protested inequalities in the system on the first day of school by traveling to a wealthier section of Chicago…
As Obama’s inauguration approaches, I have been hearing more and more about how racism in the US has ended, is on its way out, or is no longer an issue. This unprecedented event has me thinking a few different thoughts, but not one of them includes the idea that racism is ‘dead.’ The election of a…
Let’s take a look at a 21st Century School…. These are the conditions in the school my students attend every day. What does this tell them about how their education is valued?
So, I decided to start this blog after 4 long years of teaching in a school that is literally crumbling apart every day. From days when it was 60 degrees in my classroom, to days when my outlet falls out of the wall and I have to (no joke) tape it to the wall, to…