It’s a non-issue. I’m a college professor. There is a statement on my syllabus that says that if your cellphone goes off in class, or if you make a call in the classroom, you are required to dance in front of the class. I tend to use the […]
School rules vary from school to school and district to district, so these might not be true for all schools. Just all of the ones I’ve worked at: We cannot leave students unsupervised for even a minute. That’s why we’re on our phones sometimes… we’re chatting with our […]
Gossip is the root of all evil. If an individual has a problem, it should be addressed in a healthy, productive manner in which all parties feel as though the outcome is mutually beneficial. Right. Yeah, about that. One of the best parts about being a teacher is […]
“Teachers and administrators demonstrate all too well a capacity to either enrich or diminish one another’s lives and thereby enrich or diminish their schools”- Roland Barth As a consultant, I spend a lot of time in school staff rooms. They are fascinating places and tell us a lot […]
So the thing is that this is a “half-truth” – the perception that districts don’t fund teachers – that goes from “half” to “full” truth across the course of a year… but since it doesn’t start that way, there’s very little impetus for change. Generally a district either […]
As a former classroom teacher, I always remember making it to the end of the school year with a combination of exhaustion and relief. The final month of school often felt like a sprint to the finish as my colleagues and I worked hard to complete our expected […]
Us educators hear an exorbitant amount of hysterical, shocking, and downright ludicrous things from students. Here are the top 20 things that students say that teachers don’t want to hear. TWO QUESTIONNAIRES FOR PARENTS FOR IDENTIFYING GIFTED STUDENTS I was absent. Did I miss anything important? We were […]
