by Trevor Barton | Mar 31, 2020 | Opinion
I woke at my normal time – 6:15 a.m. – on March 18. I drove to school on my normal route. I walked through the front doors of the school with my normal smile on my face and hope in my heart. That’s where my normal turned into “lamron” – backwards normal – where up...
by Trevor Barton | Feb 27, 2020 | Opinion
Experiencing homelessness was a topic of conversation in my elementary school classroom several years ago. This has been on my mind lately; it means as much now as it did then. My students had questions about the central character in the story, “Fly Away Home,”...
by Trevor Barton | Dec 23, 2019 | Opinion
A meaningful moment happened at lunch recently. They often do in elementary school cafeterias. We elementary school teachers eat lunch with our students. As we sit and eat our meat and three vegetables with them, we become listeners instead of talkers, we become...
by Trevor Barton | Nov 20, 2019 | Opinion
I noticed one of my students was sitting at her table with her head in her arms, as still as the petals of a daisy on a midsummer afternoon. This was a few weeks ago as we were moving from our morning work to our writing workshop, and as the students were milling...
by Trevor Barton | Sep 19, 2019 | Opinion
Over half of the students I teach at my Title I elementary school in west Greenville, South Carolina, are from Mexico, Central America and South America. I love teaching them. I love them. The political winds of the last three years have blown against them. They are...
