Letting Go of Feeling Highly Responsible for Fixing Student Behavioral IssuesA Mental Health Matters Moment for TeachersBy Jane ArouetThis post is part of a free Teacher’s Life resource blog series courtesy of Teacher’s Discovery. If you would like to get more Mental Health Matters Moments for Teachers sent to your inbox each week, subscribe to our blog.I’m a high school … Read More
Saying No in Order to Preserve Your Precious Time: The Sub Crisis – A Mental Health Matters Moment from Teacher’s Discovery
Saying “No” in Order to Preserve Your Precious Time: The Sub CrisisA Mental Health Matters Moment for TeachersBy Jane ArouetThis post is part of a free Teacher’s Life resource blog series courtesy of Teacher’s Discovery. If you would like to get more Mental Health Matters Moments for Teachers sent to your inbox each week, subscribe to our blog.I don’t know … Read More
Summer Vacation 101: The Teacher’s Essential Guide
This is about what teachers everywhere will be doing this summer. I was interested, so I asked.
Why Ricky Martin Is Unapologetically a Part of My Classroom
Wait—before you assume that’s just plain weird and click on a story with more educational value, at least hear me out.
Lockdown
I never practiced a lockdown drill as a child. I never thought, “Despite the danger, I want to work in a school building.” I never considered that being a schoolmarm could be any more dangerous than maybe getting ink from the overhead projector pens up and down my wrist and arm.
Lit With Liz | American Street
American Street just sounds like the perfect symbolic name for a book whose main character is an immigrant. Right? American dream on American street? Sounds pretty perfect.
Get Lit With Liz
February 21, 2019 Liz Zupan There are books that you forget as soon as you finish them. There are some that leave you stunned from the surprise ending that transformed your literary reality. And there are some books whose story lingers with you long after you have turned the last page—popping into your mind and filling the small moments of … Read More
7 Pieces of Advice I’d Give to Myself If I Were to Start Teaching Again
All of us, whether this is our 20th year teaching or our very first, must grow and change so that we can reach our students, who are also growing and changing.
Three Steps to Proactive Classroom Management
Teachers can establish a proactive classroom using these three steps…
When You Lose a Student
College doesn’t prepare you for how to deal with losing a student or how to take care of students who are affected.