by Cameron Vickrey | Feb 23, 2022 | Opinion
The teaching career is changing, and not for the better. Teachers are leaving the profession in alarming numbers, and many plan to leave earlier than they thought they would. My high school senior year AP English teacher died unexpectedly last week. Mr. Wood was a...
by Colin Harris | Jan 26, 2022 | Opinion
Our two-year-long journey through the dark valley of the COVID-19 pandemic has suffered the loss of a multitude of victims here and across the globe. Few have not been touched in some way personally by these losses. Words like “unprecedented” and “immeasurable” have...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 3, 2021 | Opinion
Education stands out as one of the many casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic, and not just for the reasons we would suspect. Children of all ages, along with students in higher education, either missed a lot of classes, or had to switch to remote learning, or both....
by Trevor Barton | Oct 28, 2021 | Opinion
Interactive reading is one way I engage my fourth graders in learning about new people and places. Recently, we’ve used this approach with books by Malala Yousafzai and Jane Goodall. “Have you heard of Malala?” I asked my students when introducing them to her book...
by Trevor Barton | Sep 29, 2021 | Opinion
I’m reading a book. This is no easy task for an elementary school teacher. Since the first day of school, my brain tightly shuts by 8 p.m. and my eyes by 9 p.m. This book, though, is for my heart. What elementary school teacher (or any kind of teacher) doesn’t need a...
