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Connected to the Community

An effective model for preparing and retaining teachers

Marianne Smith, Jan Osborn

A look inside I-Teach, an effective model for preparing and retaining teachers.

As States Build Barriers to Racial Justice Teaching, Educators Fight Back

Rachel M. Cohen

Teachers nationwide have been standing up to register their resistance and solidarity, organizing rallies, supporting school board candidates who reject these bills, and doubling down on their own efforts to learn and teach about race.

Teaching to Make a Difference

Advice to New Teachers from Teachers Who've Been There

Advice to new teachers from teachers who’ve been there: Bill Bigelow, Stephanie Walters, Linda Christensen, Kathy Swope, Kelley Dawson, Stan Karp, David Levine, Bob Peterson and Dale Weiss

The Role of Performance Assessment in Developing Teaching as a Profession

Linda Darling-Hammond, Maria E. Hyler

The edTPA will lead to better teachers and more professional respect.

Teach Truth Days of Action

Educators Speak Out

Valencia Abbott, Tamara Anderson, Dawn Bolton, Christina Bustos, Anna O’Brien, Michael Rebne, Heather Smith, and Vanessa Williams

We asked teachers who helped organize “Teach Truth Days of Action” in various parts of the country to describe their days
of action and why they were important. Here’s what they said.

Teaching for Joy and Justice

Linda Christensen

An excerpt from Christensen’s new book, Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-imagining the Language Arts Classroom.

Teachers, Culture, and Power

An Interview with African-American Educator Lisa Delpit

Following is an interview with Lisa Delpit, an African-American educator who has written several prominent articles on teaching reading and writing to children of color. Her articles have focused, in […]

Teaching’s Revolving Door

New teachers leave the profession at an alarming rate — and there's no single reason or easy solutions

Barbara Miner

New teachers leave the profession at an alarming rate —and there’s no single reason or easy solutions

Teaching In Dangerous Times

In this era of demands for teacher quality, it is crucial to develop culturally relevant ways to assess teachers.

Gloria Ladson-Billings

In this era of demands for teacher quality, it is crucial to develop culturally relevant ways to assess teachers.

Classroom Spaces, Teacher Choices

William Ayers

Among Schoolchildrenby Tracy Kidder Houghton Mifflin Company340 pages, $19.95 Tracy Kidder should stick to writing about houses. Or computers. Or Yuba City. Anything but schools. His popular account of one […]

Teaching Palestine

An interview with Palestinian educator Ziad Abbas

Jody Sokolower

Drawing on his experience growing up in a refugee camp in the West Bank and his work with youth, Abbas explores connections that bring Palestine to life for students in the United States.

Rethinking Islamophobia

A Muslim educator and curriculum developer questions whether religious literacy is an effective antidote to combat bigotries rooted in American history

Alison Kysia

The increasing violence against Muslims, Sikhs, South Asians, and others targeted as Muslim, suggests we, as Americans, are becoming less tolerant and need educational interventions that move beyond post-9/11 teaching strategies that emphasize our peacefulness or oversimplify our histories, beliefs, and rituals in ways that often lead to further stereotyping.

Time to Learn

The first year of teaching can be an exhausting nightmare. Here's how one teacher not only survived but stayed true to her vision of good teaching.

Kelly Dawson

The first year of teaching can be an exhausting nightmare. How one new teacher not only survived, but stayed true to her vision.

How the edTPA Disrupts Relationships

Reclaiming our visions and integrity

Mara Sapon-Shevin, Sue Novinger Robb

The edTPA has become a credentialing requirement in many states. Its implementation has distorted relationships throughout teacher education.

An Open Letter to New Teach For America Recruits

Katie Osgood

A Chicago teacher urges TFA recruits to think twice before they sign up.

Playing Smart

Wayne Au

Scripted curriculum de-skills teachers and rewards students for passivity, not critical thinking. A teacher educator urges teachers to organize and fight back.

Embracing a Vision of Social Justice in Early Childhood Education

Ann Pelo

The introduction to the new Rethinking Schools book Rethinking Early Childhood Education

Teachers Teaching Teachers

In Portland, teachers work together to create teacher-centered professional development

Linda Christensen

In Portland, teachers work together to create teacher-centered professional development.

Confronting the Right-Wing Attacks on Racial Justice Teaching

Rethinking Schools Editors

it is critical and righteous work. And that by doing this work, we join an esteemed collective of educators, past and present, who went for broke teaching children that, to paraphrase Eduardo Galeano, tomorrow can be more than just another name for today.

Learn to Respect Before You Speak Thoughts

Joseph Bruchac

My own first experiences in teaching American Indian literature came after three years in West Africa. I returned to the United States in 1969 and found myself at Skidmore College […]

What’s a Nice Test Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

EdTPA and corporate education reform