The argument goes something like this… The preponderance of female teachers in schools, particularly at the elementary school level, may very well have delet...

Boys used to wear dresses. In the 19th century, it was fairly common for young boys to be brought up wearing girls’ clothing until about six or seven years o...

Shakespeare makes many references to life as a type of play. The author imagines that we are all really on a stage performing our roles given to us by some a...

If you are a student educated in the United States, it is impossible not to be triggered by the phrase, “the War of 1812”. Yes, of course, we all learn about...

Jessie is wicked fast. She’s so fast, that when she’s standing still she still looks like she’s moving. For months, the third grade recess yard at school has...

There is a dirty little lie that teachers tell and it is a complicated one. “I don’t play favorites in my classroom. All of my students are important to me a...

**Guest Blogger: Rachel Collins If you google “self-defense training near me,” or something similar, you’re likely to get relevant results in most cities of ...

As someone who has spent over 25 years hiring faculty and staff for schools, one of my favorite interview questions which I ask candidates for teaching posit...

I am somewhere between 5 and 6 years old when my father began telling me stories about his father, my grandfather. The reason he needs to tell me stories is ...

When we think about violence, it often looks 1) physical 2) taking place between a perpetrator and a victim and 3) worthy of intervention (prevention is alwa...

“What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal child, if he has confidence in mother ...

As I discussed earlier in a blog post about teaching history, students, because of gender bias, can miss out on critical dimensions of learning about the pas...

Guest Blogger: Tracey Schreier** My four siblings and myself were born in the 1960s in Welkom, South Africa. Welkom was a dry, dusty and flat place in the co...

Whoever said that coaches of sports teams would make excellent history teachers? I am unclear how this ever became a thing, but in American high schools, as ...

There are no magic wands. Nothing will get tied up in a beautiful bow. It will be imperfect work. Just like anything we attempt to teach our students. Jennif...

**By Bill Davidson Guest Blogger “I’m going to project two problems that I’d like you to solve on a piece of scrap paper,” I said, standing in front of a bla...

Walking into an early childhood classroom can be a comforting experience. Everything looks so...familiar. Not much seems to have changed over the past 60 yea...

The common thinking and the go-to argument when we talk about the gadgets and computers and devices which we use all day long is that the technology can be u...

It is Fall of 1994 and I am in my second year of teaching and being the English department chair of a school with a unique structure and environment. The sch...

For years as a principal of an early childhood through 8th grade school, the prize was always attempting to hire men into the elementary school program. I th...