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April Teacher of the Month: Shawnee Heights High School’s Shannon Byrne

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Shannon Byrne, an English teacher at Shawnee Heights High School, has been named April’s Teacher of the Month, an honor she said feels both overwhelming and validating. Byrne has spent ...
Education Week

‘They’re Our Kids’: How Teaching English Learners Is Changing

In Christina Gomez’s kindergarten classroom at Mt. View Elementary, in a neighborhood of Nashville, Tenn., students took turns summarizing what they’d just read about the four seasons and farm animals ...
The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionOpinion

If teachers aren’t passionate about their subjects, how can students be?

When teachers are excited about the subject matter, it's often contagious. Banning controversial books and topics doesn't ...
The Stanford Daily

‘English Teacher’ highlights the human beyond the classroom

Evan Marquez wakes up for the day, and the ’80s beats begin. Sometimes the titular English teacher’s on-and-off boyfriend Matthew is next to him in bed; often, he’s not. Evan does his morning ...
YourTango

My First Year Teaching, I Walked Out Mid-Day After A Panic Attack Because I’d Hit My Limit With These Kids

In his first year of teaching, educator Michael L. Maceira reached a breaking point he never saw coming. Overwhelmed by a ...
New Orleans City Business

Louisiana needs more teachers for English language learners. A new program offers help.

Louisiana’s first alternative program to certify teachers of English learners will seek final approval Wednesday from the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in hopes of addressing a shortage ...