Though I never had the words for it, I knew I was different from my peers when I was a kid. As the son of Indian immigrants, I looked for ways to push back against the pressure to assimilate and ...
I’ll never forget the look in my student’s eyes as she worked through a math lesson I had designed with ChatGPT. The goal was to connect mathematical concepts to something real — U.S. Department of ...
Earlier this year, I designed a “book tasting” for my middle school class that changed my career in a matter of days. Inspired by a National Council of Teachers of English initiative, I generated a ...
When I came to Achievement First Brooklyn High School eight years ago as the ninth grade literature teacher, it was my fourth year of teaching and my first time in a school that was unapologetically ...
Teaching in the fall semester was miserable — that frequent feeling of a student’s fingers slipping between mine, pulling away, and spiraling out into nothingness ...
These strategies help teachers set up engaging and enriching opportunities for literacy exploration throughout the day.