Confronting the Five-Year Itch
It started as an email: “I’m not sure that I’m going to be able to maintain teaching… .”
Then another: “Does teaching ever get any easier?”
A third told me, “We’re on our fourth principal in three years… .”
Send Us Learning Ideas for Activity Exchange
Have you ever considered contributing a learning idea to be published in the Teaching Tolerance magazine? Now is the time. It’s a wonderful way for you to share engaging activities with your peers.
The Absolutely True Confessions of An Intellectual Stalker, Part I
I have a confession to make. I’m an “intellectual stalker”. Let me explain. In her recent book White Heaat, author Brenda Wineapple quotes Emily Dickinson in a letter addressed to Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Are you too occupied to tell me if my verse is alive?” Dickinson was very coyly asking Higginson for his literary advice She wanted him to acknowledge whether or not she had anything to offer. Dickinson had read a series of Higginson’s essays in The Atlantic and was reaching out for his advice.
Single-Gender Education: Why the Rush?
A couple of years ago, my wife casually mentioned that our son’s school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, would be introducing some single-sex classes. I was surprised because I thought any type of segregation was illegal. But after a little research, I found that a sexual revolution has been brewing in our public schools.
‘Usually Offensive’
red·skin \ˈred-ˌskin\
(noun) usually offensive : American Indian
Note the “usually offensive” — a warning from one of the more neutral arbitrators of American English, Merriam-Webster. “Redskin” is a pejorative term, and should be used with caution, if at all.
