Nancy Barlow

Nancy Barlow is a Connecticut teacher who also writes a blog, The Teacher Geek.


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What’s Next For Girls Who Want To Be Astronauts? As the final Space Shuttle mission touched down last month, ending NASA’s 30-year space shuttle program, I wondered what would come next for women in...
Teachers’ Words Can Help Build Futures During one particularly frenetic transition in the classroom recently, Mila  bounded up to me and asked, “Mrs. B, do you think I could be a...
Sally’s Ride Made Space Cool I distinctly remember watching the very first space shuttle blast off on April 12, 1981. I was 8 years old, and I watched it while eating breakfast...
Lunch With Teacher Builds Relationships Consider the humble lunch as one of your most powerful teaching tools. From the first day of school, Ricky was one of my most difficult students....
Boosting Empathy with Five Simple Words Ricky was a big ball of anger. In all fairness, he had plenty to be angry about. The first years of his life were pretty rough. Now, at age 7, home...