Category : “Life in the Classroom”

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Some Needs Are More Basic Than Math

September 3, 2013Sandy Merz Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Teacher Leadership

The hand that holds mine on our path through life is chapped and cut and burned: the wages, along a few dollars an hour, of preparing 400 school meals a day. Her day begins early. Up and out the door

Virtually Segregated

August 25, 2013Amethyst Hinton Sainz Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Teacher Leadership, Web/Tech

Teachers must be vigilant that with online tools we do not inadvertently stigmatize groups of students we mean to help.

Summertime and the Reading Was Easy

August 9, 2013Sandy Merz Books, Current Affairs, Life in the Classroom, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership

After 65 days I could call my own, it’s back to the work. I spent a good portion of my time reading and hope to take much of what I learned forward into my professional duties. School days are

What If? #4: What if teachers had it all?

August 7, 2013Amethyst Hinton Sainz Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Literacy, Web/Tech

How would your teaching change if you had all the resources you needed?

The Obstinacy of Hope

May 16, 2013Amethyst Hinton Sainz Assessment, Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Literacy

I endeavor to explain how I see hope as essential to a teacher’s job, and yet not quite the syrupy-sweet thing that many interpret from Dickinson’s famous poem. It’s more beaky.

Pre-emptive Strike: Teachers and Summer Vacation

May 5, 2013Sandy Merz Current Affairs, Life in the Classroom, Teacher Leadership

The public perceives that during summer vacation teachers take vacation. The teacher-leader community perceives that we work – planning for the new year, attending and presenting at conferences, and the like. I think the public perception is closer to the

A Special Relationship

April 29, 2013Amethyst Hinton Sainz Books, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Literacy, Teacher Leadership

Is the library the beating heart of your school? Ours is.

Standardized Tests and Monty Hall

April 21, 2013Sandy Merz Assessment, Current Affairs, Education, Games, Life in the Classroom, Mathematics

I was proctoring my students during the standardized tests last week and thinking of how we try to train them to try to eliminate a couple of obvious wrong answers before guessing. Then I remembered the Monty Hall Problem. You

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What’s the temperature in my class?

April 10, 2013Sandy Merz Books, Current Affairs, Education, Life in the Classroom

Blogger Julie Torres coordinates support for National Board candidates in our district. In that capacity she observes many teachers at their practice. In her recent post, 10 Degrees of Teaching, Julie takes the temperature of the current teaching environment and lists ten observations. After

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