The Student Teacher at Your Desk

Several millennia ago, not long into my first year as a classroom teacher, my principal called me into her office one early morning. She said she had a question for me. Honestly, I was expecting her to ask, “Just how long do you think you can keep up this charade?” The first few weeks of…

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Light Dawns on Marblehead

In college in the previous millennium, I had the pleasure of becoming good friends with a fellow New Englander out of Concord, Massachusetts. These days he’s a physical education teacher in Pennsylvania, but back then we were simply undergrads who liked robust, raucous, and challenging dialogue. We were once engrossed in a conversation with some…

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