Teaching for Joy and Justice

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

Boycott!

Los Angeles teachers take on LAUSD’s mandated tests.

A Pedagogy for Ecology

Helping students build an ecological identity and a conscious connection to place opens them to a broader bond with the earth.

The Wonder of Nature

A review of The Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, The Sense of Wonder, and A Sand County Almanac.

Rethinking Lunchtime

Lunch is too important to be thought of as the ritual pit stop between classroom and playground.

Teaching in Dystopia

The problem is this: Testing is killing education. Not only is it narrowing the curriculum generally

The Scripted Prescription

Testing mania reaches the pre-K classroom.  It saddened me to think that my daughter’s first impression of school was based on taking a test and failing it.”

Queer Matters

While we were excited to support the opening of the educational closet

Feeding Two Birds With One Hand

I can’t imagine any teacher union leader or local school board member who wouldn’t welcome a new federal program that would make the issue of healthcare benefits a moot point in bargaining.”