“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 knew that she had the potential to succeed. The challenge was finding a way to engage her and help her develop a growth mindset.

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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 our society today, teachers are too often thought of as having one singular function, when in reality, teachers wear many different...

Michigan Department of Education Superintendent Brian Whiston has challenged our state to become a Top 10 Education state in 10 years, but at the rate we are going, we’re headed right to the bottom. The Great Lake State is on track to becoming a state better defined by...

Right now, Michigan high school students are in the middle of taking our annual state testing, the Michigan Merit Exam (MME). For 11th graders this includes the SAT, WorkKeys (a job-skills test), and the MSTEP test (the state's social studies and science test). For our...

If you had asked me six months ago if I would be requesting meetings with legislators and sharing my experiences as an educator with them, I would have laughed at you. But that is exactly what I did this month and will be doing in the future. If you are an educator you...