There is a reverence, a sacred trust in being first a teacher.
![avatar](https://i0.wp.com/well-schooled.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ann-klotz.jpg?resize=100%2C100&ssl=1)
Ann V. Klotz
Latest posts
Summer Daze: Long Days with Books!
![avatar](https://i0.wp.com/well-schooled.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ann-klotz.jpg?resize=24%2C24&ssl=1)
How I loved the moment at the end of spring when our homeroom teacher would pass out the summer reading list. I clutched those…
Safety First
![avatar](https://i0.wp.com/well-schooled.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ann-klotz.jpg?resize=24%2C24&ssl=1)
This summer, I have thought a lot about safety at school. The safety and well-being of every child and of every faculty and staff…
Facing Othello
![avatar](https://i0.wp.com/well-schooled.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ann-klotz.jpg?resize=24%2C24&ssl=1)
We talked about race and othering, about passion versus reason, about women finding their voices, about how easy it can be to be manipulated,…
Teaching Seventh-Graders: Midwinter’s Energy Boost
![avatar](https://i0.wp.com/well-schooled.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ann-klotz.jpg?resize=24%2C24&ssl=1)
Tired. Depleted. Grumpy. The pandemic is wearing. We are long past novelty and the adrenalin that carried us through summer. In our community, numbers were down; then they soared. Now,…
A Conversation Between Two Leaders
![avatar](https://i0.wp.com/well-schooled.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ann-klotz.jpg?resize=24%2C24&ssl=1)
Kathryn Purcell: I first met Ann 16 years ago. I knew from my first two encounters with her that I would learn a lot…
Wanted: Women Who Prevail
![avatar](https://i0.wp.com/well-schooled.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ann-klotz.jpg?resize=24%2C24&ssl=1)
Why do we teach what we teach? What happens when a story we love isn’t greeted with enthusiasm by our students? I used to…
Living Room Leadership
![avatar](https://i0.wp.com/well-schooled.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ann-klotz.jpg?resize=24%2C24&ssl=1)
They are bored. They are lonely. They are sad and mad. They are a group who has led our school with calm and thoughtfulness…
To Teach or Not To Teach?
![avatar](https://i0.wp.com/well-schooled.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ann-klotz.jpg?resize=24%2C24&ssl=1)
The rhythm of teaching grounded me. Having a class allowed me to quickly come to know fifteen girls as individuals, and they grew up…
Read, Restore, Grow
![avatar](https://i0.wp.com/well-schooled.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ann-klotz.jpg?resize=24%2C24&ssl=1)
More than any other season, summer invites us to read. Whether we are traveling or staying home, working or taking vacation time, we school…
My Office, Myself
![avatar](https://i0.wp.com/well-schooled.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ann-klotz.jpg?resize=24%2C24&ssl=1)
Mine is a wonderful, complicated, fascinating job. To shape the culture of a school whose mission resonates; to work with brilliant, brave colleagues; to…