Insight: For Inspiration
A Letter to My Children: a Decade of National Teacher of the Year
April 29, 2020 Dear Evan, Lauren and Zach: I woke up early this morning, way before my alarm went off. I noticed the date on my phone and opened my email out of habit. Sitting at the top of the queue, was a note from my former superintendent who wrote, “one of the...
Ask Sarah LIVE with Sharif El-Mekki: Teacher Appreciation
It won't even take one full minute to grasp the wisdom Sharif El-Mekki brings to any conversation about teaching and learning. We could have talked for hours, but I'm grateful to have had this half hour with him as my guest for this Ask Sarah. Here's our FB...
Triggers & Levers: What Physical Therapy Taught Me About Teaching
Recently, I found myself in an impassioned conversation with a teacher who kept asking, “How do we get teachers, especially secondary teachers, to believe they have to teach the whole student, not just their content?” For well over an hour we sat and talked, trying to...
Ask Sarah LIVE: #LoveTeaching
Once again, Ask Sarah, made the leap to Facebook Live and once again, you showed up with your questions, your comments, your conversation. Here’s the snack-size version of the broadcast, so you can find or watch just the portions you want to. You can also catch the...
#WhyITeach: A Letter to a Former Student
This week’s Ask Sarah column addresses a question Teacher2Teacher has been posing to a lot of teachers recently. They’re wondering #WhyITeach. But rather than answering them directly, I decided to write a letter to one of my former students. I hope...
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