Sometimes you do not realize how much your identity plays a role in how you interact with others. Your values…
Heard In The Hallways
Learn to learn. That has been my educational philosophy all my life.
As I glanced through the window, it was right there. Your face.
Don’t pass it by –the immediate, the real, the only, the yours. —Henry James, in a letter to Edith Wharton…
In and out of school, among the people I know best, I sense an unmeasurable growth taking place, the kind…
It was a book about a collective of children who survived the end of the world. Alone in a world…
I work with small groups of students who have flunked Algebra and Geometry. I help them understand the material enough…
Sometimes, our best lessons are the ones we hope we never have to teach.
What I felt about each student couldn’t be found in the cells of excel or in the margins of my…
Editor’s note: Listen to Stephen Valentine narrate his story (9 minutes, 11 seconds). 1. Last summer, when my family’s quarantine…
Lately I’ve come back to the same image when I fantasize about having every student back in the classroom, particularly…
The following names have been fictionalized. What do three minutes in an in-person classroom look like during a pandemic? Minute…
The other day, I overheard a student share with his classmate that he liked my class because, he said, “It’s…
