Strategies for Teachers Who Want to Have Real Conversations with Students
4 ways teachers can teach truth in hostile districts
Teaching Challenges
Preparing to Resist
It’s time for teachers to resist.
Teachers, Are You Experiencing “Vicarious Trauma”?
This is a guest post by Moriah Stephens, a high school teacher in a school outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. See Ms. Stephens’ bio below. Edukention thanks Moriah for being our first ever Guest Blogger! [Details in this post have been altered to maintain anonymity and protect the privacy of those mentioned.] — “I have to wear… Read More »Teachers, Are You Experiencing “Vicarious Trauma”?
10 Reasons for Writing Teachers to Get Up in the Morning–and Some to Run Back to Bed!
This is a slideshow I created and delivered for the SUNY Council on Writing in 2018. Please enjoy! Link to Full Slideshow (no sound)
Don’t Take Cheating Personally
Click to listen to this post. We spend hours and hours planning lessons, coming up with useful and interesting assignments, and we spend huge amounts of energy directly working with students to help them not only understand those assignments but to actually succeed on them. And after all that, this little bastard turns in an… Read More »Don’t Take Cheating Personally
Cold Calling with Compassion
If you’re like me, you remember how teachers would deliberately call on students not so much to elicit an answer but to catch a student not paying attention. I was pretty good at answering when I got called out, as after years and years of practicing, I could daydream while keeping one ear on the… Read More »Cold Calling with Compassion
Are You a Snowplow Teacher?
Are you doing too much for your students? This could help.
Your Class Has Really Gone Off the Rails. What Can You Do RIGHT NOW?
All classes are different, and each has its own personality, a result of the chemistry of the people in the room, the time of day the class meets, the length of the class, and the general mood of the school/community it’s in. This is one of the great things about teaching. You really never know… Read More »Your Class Has Really Gone Off the Rails. What Can You Do RIGHT NOW?
Teaching Standard English is Racist
Since I co-authored a number of articles and chapters in the early 2000s–including the most popular “Why Revitalize Grammar?” (2003, English Journal), “Grammar Rant Analysis” (2006, English Journal), and Grammar Rants (Heinemann, 2011)–I have been exploring the ways in which grammar instruction in the USA is based on bigotry. In the years since, I have… Read More »Teaching Standard English is Racist