Tag: teaching

• Eating Crow

  Oct 6

  Life is full of incidents that teach humility, and I’ve met quite a lot of them. Being the kind of person who charges ahead with my own agenda, led by… more ›

• What’s in a Name?

  Sep 23

  I once read an article advocating a minimum age requirement for getting a tattoo by comparing body art to a drunken climb up a water tower with a can of… more ›

• FloCrit: Wraparound Services for Teen Families

  May 2

  When I started teaching high school science in Oklahoma in 2007 at the age of 55, I knew almost nothing about teaching. I’d taught Freshman Composition at a local college… more ›

• Choose Change: You never know where it’ll take you

  Mar 14

  Last year, I finished a memoir about my eight-year career as a science teacher to teen moms, called Subject to Change. My story emphasizes the human capacity for and willingness… more ›

• Diplomas and Pregnant Teens

  Oct 25

  I’ve been doing some research into issues surrounding teen pregnancy recently. I did research a couple of years ago when drafting my memoir, Subject to Change, about teaching science to… more ›

• What Now?

  Aug 12

  … after the last revision I’ve poured my energy and my passion into a memoir manuscript for the past two years—Subject to Change: What Teaching Teen Moms Taught Me. Some… more ›

• Success

  Feb 16

  What is success? Maybe it’s like pornography: you know it when you see it. Unfortunately, the signs aren’t always visible, and we can’t know if a person who seems successful… more ›

• Assumptions

  Jan 18

  When Zoom became our primary connection tool in 2020, I both loved and hated it. It allowed me to stay home and attend to business or communicate with others from… more ›

• Alternatives

  Jan 4

  Public school teachers are leaving the classroom in record numbers. According to a 2022 report by the NEA, 55% of classroom teachers considered leaving the profession early. The percentage is… more ›