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What it's really like teaching high school in person and online at the same time I have a classroom with 37 high school students staring at me. My breath quickens, making my mask wet and hot. My current lesson is over and from the corner of my eye I can see my unread email count increasing. Emails from my online students, most likely about an activity that isn't working or an assignment they can't access. It's no big deal for classes to go wrong. It happens all the time, even for experienced teachers. I'm good on my feet and usually my students have no idea that I work part-time. However, this year is different. I get paid a little extra to teach the online world history course, which consists of about 80 students from eight different high schools in our sprawling district, including urban, suburban,...

Experienced teachers know that true literacy is much more than just ringing the letters on the page. Experienced readers must be able to master what the words are and what they mean. To do this successfully, they bring together different skills such as vocabulary, language structure and verbal reasoning. Scarborough's rope model can help educators better understand what it really takes to attract qualified readers. What is Scarborough's rope? Source: Brainspring dr Hollis Scarborough invented the reading rope concept in the early 1990s. She used it to help parents understand the different skills their children needed to master in order to become competent readers. Originally, she twisted together a model made out of pipe cleaners to demonstrate her point. In 2001 the model was released in Handbook of Early Literacy Research (Neumann/Dickinson). Reading teachers immediately saw how useful it was, and it became a staple in the training of new teachers and parents al...

When did teachers become the enemy? I'm not nostalgic for 2020. Dear God, who could possibly be nostalgic for 2020? And yet...remember the year 2020 when teachers were heroes? Remember when schools first closed and we struggled to master new technologies and make materials available to students. and making sure they got fed and trying to instill some sense of normality and the whole world was like, 'wow, the teachers are great'? The behind-the-scenes work we'd always done was suddenly visible to parents, and Draper James offered us free dresses (haha, I was joking), and we were second only to healthcare workers, first responders, and InstaCart when it came down to heroism. What a difference a year makes. Those of us who were celebrated for our creativity and resilience at the beginning of the pandemic are no...