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Know a teacher who got a pink slip?  Maybe my newest post at Teacher Magazine can help.  Click here for the article. It's Step 1 of my Top Secret New Teacher Handbook.  Hope it creates some shortcuts, a machete even, through ...

You know, sometimes I wonder if I'm not a huge pain in the ass to present for, especially if I love what's going on.  I'm one of those audience members who has to verbally digest and implement what I am ...

An (aspiring) Educator is hosting this week's Carnival of Education #178.  I've tweaked my How to Take Control of Your Teaching list and although it's still in an evolving state, you can read it here.  Enjoy the Carnival and the ...

Welcome to the Carnival of Education #177 hosted this week by Where's the Sun?  The theme was empowerment so my entry covers the first step in teacher empowerment, "How to Find a Job in Education that you Love."   You may ...

The Pre-First Step in How to Take Control of Your Teaching is actively seeking out the right school for you. GOAL: To love where you work and enjoy what you are doing   Too many teachers are miserable. Some of that can be ...

In Education Week's article, "Busywork 101," Jay Solomon writes that the credential programs of today are a "seemingly endless journey through the abstract and the ridiculous."  He also claims that these programs aren't a conspiracy of arbitrary tedium.  I beg ...

So my colleague who currently teaches 8th grade Language Arts tripped on a cord, flew to the corner of a table and was momentarily knocked unconscious behind her desk today.  It was during her Honors class.

Dave Saba of DoE: Dave on Ed fame examined the Center for American Progress report on Alternative Teacher Certification possibilities.  In response to his post, I commented that not only are alternative methods of teacher credentialing a must, the development ...

Look, we all know the statistics.  Many of the hardest-to-teach classes are being taught by the least experienced teachers.  According to Education Week, a study was recently conducted in Philadeliphia evaluating 9th graders, "the make-or-break year for many students on ...