Leading by Example: Student Growth Begins With Teachers
“Maybe I’m just not good at math.” Hearing those words from Alice, one of my students, made my heart sink. Like all of my students, I...
Teaching is a Legitimate and Demanding Professions
As I wind up the school year and reflect on all that has happened this year, I have been thinking about what it means to be a teacher. In...
#NBCTStrong Teachers are #TeachStrong Advocates
TeachStrong is a national campaign dedicated to modernizing and elevating the teaching profession. Sixty partner organizations have...
Preserving Education, Opportunity, and the American Dream in Michigan
Michigan Department of Education Superintendent Brian Whiston has challenged our state to become a Top 10 Education state in 10 years,...
Michigan's Testing Culture Fails Students
Right now, Michigan high school students are in the middle of taking our annual state testing, the Michigan Merit Exam (MME). For 11th...
A Math Teacher Goes to the Captiol...And Why You Need To Do The Same
If you had asked me six months ago if I would be requesting meetings with legislators and sharing my experiences as an educator with...
How Michigan Can Meet Superintendent Whiston's Challenge
There is a lot of media coverage right now about the deplorable conditions in Detroit Public Schools and the water crisis in Flint. These...
What College and Career Readiness Looks Like.
In our program, college and career readiness is everything. We are an early middle college and our students must complete Eastern...
#ITeachBecause: Why I teach
#ITeachBecause it is fun and challenging. Teaching requires strong content knowledge and managerial/coaching skills. I love the challenge...
How Do you Reassess in Your SBG Classroom?
Do you use standards-based grading? I started several years ago in my arithmetic and Algebra I classes at the early middle college I...
