It is my belief that every day you have students in your classroom is a day to educate. That includes the very last days of school. As much as I yearned for the opportunity to slack off a little, maybe show a film adaptation of a novel we had read, I rarely gave my students…
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We Vote for Teachers
Ah, election time. You can hear the happy citizenry delightfully and kindly debating the merits of each other’s preferred candidate, both of whom present a truthful and glorious roadmap into a prosperous future guaranteed to last. Most wonderful of all, of course, is their always-unbroken promise to help make our students their number-one priority. You…
202 Ways to End the School Year
When big-name Hollywood entertainers talk about the ends of their careers, they often talk about “going out on top.” Of course, some movie stars see their careers terminated by foolish personal transgressions, and some television stars see their winning careers turn into losing propositions in the time it takes to appear on a third-rate radio…
Teaching Current Events in the Upper Grades
How do you teach currents events when those events invade your classroom? I ask this because there’s a tremendous amount of significant news coming from all corners of the world today, and sometimes it takes just one student’s raised hand to move your lessons in unexpected directions. In 2001, I had been a teacher just…