Late December. Winter break is looming. The students are restless. The teacher is equally so. Your colleague in the classroom next door is playing “The Polar Express” just a little too loud and your students know other people—their friends—are enjoying a movie while they’re concentrating on multiplying and dividing decimals. You have to wonder what’s…
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You Are Who You’re Neighbors With
People’s attitudes are infectious. In an office, if the person on the other side of the inch-thick cubicle wall spends his days eating garlic pizza and clipping his fingernails obsessively, you must either be a garlic and personal hygiene lover too, or suffer a gruesome fate. The same can certainly be said of the school…