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Gus Walz: A Joy inside and outside the classroom - The Educators Room
In 2010, I worked at Boude Storey Middle School in the South Oak Cliff community, one of Dallas’s most impoverished areas. Like all other campuses, we had a special education classroom for our nonverbal students. A young lady named “Laci” was in that class. Every time I would pass her in the hallways, she would […]
Banned Books Week 2024: The preliminary research and the titles - The Educators Room
In anticipation of Banned Books Week this week (September 22-28, 2024); the American Library Association has released preliminary data documenting attempts to censor books and materials in public, school, and academic libraries during the first eight months of 2024. Between January 1 and August 31, 2024, ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 414 attempts to censor library materials and […]
California joins growing movement by states to protect children from Social Media Addiction with New Law - The Educators Room
Overview: Several states have passed legislation focused on protecting children from the ills of social media. California made a significant move to protect children from the harms of social media with Governor Gavin Newsom’s approval of a bill aimed at limiting “addictive feeds” for minors. On Friday, Newsom signed Senate Bill 976, known as the […]
Do you want to teach empathy? Use Books in World Languages Classrooms - The Educators Room
Overview: A evidence based way to bring back empathy in the classroom starts with books, this teacher says. Recently, after reading a troubling article in the New York Times detailing students’ alarming pranks against teachers, I found myself drawn to the comments section. While I shared in the outcry for discipline and action, I couldn’t […]
Embracing the Rhythm: Understanding and Supporting Stimming in Autism - The Educators Room
Overview: This special education teacher encourages all to embrace stimming for students with autism. Recently, when discussing a parent’s concerns about his son’s stimming. Stimming, which is short for self-stimulatory behavior, refers to repetitive body movements or sounds, such as hand-flapping or other repetitive hand movements, rocking, tapping, spinning, or vocalizations, such as humming or […]
Tips for Setting Up Classrooms on a Budget - The Educators Room
Overview: This veteran teacher gives 8 tips to budget for back to school. When you are new to a school site, the first question you often ask is: How am I going to teach in an environment that isn’t suitable for children? I asked a dozen teachers I know for tips about setting up their […]
Jay-Z and Roc Nation: Let's have the conversation about school vouchers - The Educators Room
Overview: Jay-Z and Roc Nation have seemingly backed a new voucher program for students in Philadelphia. As I listen to one of my favorite songs by the prolific rap artist Jay-Z, I reminisce on how the words in the chorus will forever motivate me as a first-generation college student from New Orleans. “Some how, some […]
How the NBA’s Jaylen Brown’s Story… signifies the intentional demise of Black kids in America’s schools - The Educators Room
Overview: What we say to kids matters just as much as what we teach them. “My teacher said she will look me up in the Cobb county jail in 5 years… Wow!” This was a quote published to Twitter, now X, in 2014. It was posted by a young Black man named Jaylen Brown, who […]
Thank You…NEXT! Next School Year Has Got to be Better Than Last - The Educators Room
Overview: To stop the mass exodus of teachers we must implement C.A.L.L during the 2024-2025 school year. According to Statista, 511,000 teachers left the profession in June 2023. These numbers are exponentially higher than the eight percent who left the field in the 2021-22 school year after the COVID-19 pandemic. While there are a slew […]