An Open Letter to Teachers Seeking Balance
Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade of San Francisco State University talks about balancing your job with your life outside of it. As teachers in our toughest public schools, we have to accept that sometimes the...
View ArticleMichael Shaughnessy interviews Matt Amaral of Teach4Real.com
Michael Shaughnessy, Senior Columnist of EdNews.org and Professor of Educational Studies, interviews Teach4Real.com founder Matt Amaral about the real issues going on in real classrooms.
View ArticleFirst Person: Teaching In An Inner-City School
The day I got my job as a first grade teacher two remarkable things happened. One: a tornado hit the city. Two: I got my wisdom teeth out. So I guess you could say it was a disaster from the start, and...
View ArticleAn Interview with Editor-In-Chief of Red Ochre Lit, Mimi Ferebee, on Matt’s...
Read Matt's interview with Mimi Ferebee, the Editor-In-Chief of the literary journal Red Ochre Lit. In it Matt talks about why he wrote his new novella "The Darkness Inside Me is Sparkling", who he...
View ArticleEducation is Personal, Not Corporate
The lesson plans are key. Lesson planning is the process by which I customize education for the particular combination of students who show up on my roll sheet. I aspire to being uncommon – in the best...
View ArticleThe Conditioning of Urban Teenagers
Every day I hear the conditioned words and witness the conditioned choices of teenagers expressing a profound lack of fortitude, ownership and creativity. And what is saddest about what we’re seeing...
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