ReScattered

I have a reputation of being a teacher who is constantly eating in class. Usually it's something "weird" (translation: health...

Thursday I walked into one of my afternoon classes--the class that collectively hates to write the most--and realized that none of my studen...

When I came back to my school in September, it felt like a foreign place. I schlepped my stuff down the hall to a new classroom and felt d...

Today is one of those day in which the weather perfectly matches my mood. It's cold and rainy and the heater in my NYC apartment has ye...

I sit here proctoring an exam. Twenty-one young people--all about fifteen years old--sit before me utterly silent, calculators and #2 penci...

The Day of the English Language Arts Regents On Tuesday morning, I grabbed hold of all of the 12th graders I saw entering my school building...