Students First in the Age of Accountability: What Teachers Can Learn from Dean Smith
The death of former basketball coach Dean Smith has lessons for us as teachers. A common theme has emerged in the career of...
09 February, 2015
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#CrossSectorLearning: Working to Live vs. Living to Work
To kick off 2015, Hope Street Group hosted a Twitter chat using the hashtag#CrossSectorLearning and invited members of our network to participate and...
03 February, 2015
Career Pathways in Education … A One-lane Dirt Road
Careers are a funny thing. My grandfather once told me that if you find the thing you love to do and you do...
18 December, 2014
What I Am: A Teacher
Today is my sixtieth birthday. In Chinese tradition, I am told, a person reaching this age begins life anew, starting over as a...
15 December, 2014
Inspiring the Teachers of Tomorrow
One of my most profound written assignments happened when I was in elementary school. I remember it because it happened right after an...
18 November, 2014
Making a Grande Difference in Education
Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, once said that in order for the company to be successful, customers were going to have to have...
12 November, 2014
Common Core: A Necessary, But Insufficient, Change In Education Standards
When I first started teaching in 2009, I was surprised by something that was missing from my classroom: We did not have any...
10 November, 2014
Keeping Young Teachers in the Classroom
I teach 8th grade and I am 24. When I started in the classroom two years ago, I was not even a decade...
27 October, 2014
Geography is NOT Destiny: Charter Schools and Choice
Elana’s mom drives past four different schools to get to ours. “It’s a lot of driving,” she says, “but Elana has a home...
20 October, 2014