Tag: Teachers

It’s not as complicated as you might think Photo by Desola Lanre-Ologun on Unsplash We’ve all had those sorts of days: the lesson plan goes to shit, the period gets hijacked by a student’s remark, or the technology just won’t work like it’s supp...

My journey of self-disclosure as a gay man in an international school in Cambodia began with a deep breath and a step into the management’s office. After months of sidestepping questions about LGBTQ+ matters from my fifth-grade students, I decided it was time to seek permission to be open abou...

After yet another preventable tragedy at Parkland High School in Florida, where seventeen people, both students and faculty, were shot to death by a classmate with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, people on the right in politics are saying unequivocally that the only answer to the problem of...

As the new school year looms, and I read about how authoritarian governors like Arkansas’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Florida’s Ron DeSantis are causing grievous harm to students and education by banning African American history and all discussions about race from thei...