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Book Excerpt: Quit and go to law school
Listen. The teaching profession is more than happy to have you. You’re smart. You’re hardworking. You dress up for parent/teacher night. Plus, you got a really high score on the LSAT. Wait a minute....
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Book Excerpt: Don’t freak out
Imagine living the entirety of your life on red alert in the claustrophobic corridors of a submarine. Imagine a hurricane that won’t go away, that moves imperceptibly closer each day but never actually...
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Book Excerpt: This ain’t Hollywood
Resist the urge to imagine yourself as some altruistic superteacher come to save the lives of hardened inner-city kids. They don’t want to be saved by you, alright? Or at least not in the way that...
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Book Excerpt: That’s custodial technician to you, big guy
Janitors are at the bottom of the school hierarchy. They break their backs day after day cleaning up after ungrateful students, dutifully following in the wake of self-absorbed a-holes who shamelessly...
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Book Excerpt: You are what you teach
When students say they hate a certain subject, more often than not, that is teenage code for hating the teacher. We are not just vessels for our subjects; to the kids, we are the subjects, personified....
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Book Excerpt: Pass the mic
Tips on how to deal with the class clown. Continue reading →
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Book Excerpt: Smile like you just got zerberted by Bill Cosby
By JESSE SCACCIA & ALISTAIR BOMPHRAY Maybe the absolute worst advice an older teacher ever gave me was to not smile the entire fall term of my first year. “You’re young,” she rasped, her...
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Book Excerpt: Over the river and through the woods to graduation we go
by ALISTAIR BOMPHRAY & JESSE SCACCIA It’s no accident that we refer to it as the public school system. It’s exactly that: a system. And not a particularly kind or sensible one either. At some point...
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Book Excerpt: The purpose-driven passing period
by ALISTAIR BOMPHRAY & JESSE SCACCIA Some problems are just not meant to be dealt with in class. They are too delicate, too comprehensive, too charged, or too minor to be solved in a public forum....
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Book Excerpt: If you’re worried that the kids are smarter than you, they...
by ALISTAIR BOMPHRAY & JESSE SCACCIA Here’s the thing. The kids are smarter than you. They are brilliant, funny, creative, and perceptive. They will blow you away if you open yourself to it. I...
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