Collateral Learning

We hear it all the time- gripe, gripe, gripe.  Faculty and team meetings get lost among all the complaints about students and learning and administration and parents and lack of texts and lack of supplies and the broken copier and the pathetic lunch options and on and on and on.  In facilitating a discussion the [...]

My first year teaching, a couple of my colleagues gave me some great advice that has always stuck with me.  Joe had been a huge influence on me- he had been my Senior English teacher and when I had gone back to teach for my Alma Mater, he made me feel welcomed as a colleague [...]