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teacher appreciation week
The Grammy winner is honoring "criminally underpaid" educators during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Teachers should be appreciated every single day.
After four years of teaching, I have had time to reflect on my entry into the education profession. More importantly, these four years have taught me so much about myself and the educational landscape of our nation.
The trajectory of my life was forever changed by Eileen Daniel Riddle and James Gilchrist, two high school theater arts teachers who worked at my pre-busing, segregated suburban high school in the early 1970s.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
It's Teacher Appreciation Week, folks: #ThankATeacher.
Schools reopened after two days of teacher protests, but the beleaguered district is still set to run out of cash.
I am a sixty-five-year-old college professor standing in front of a class of seniors when my lecture suddenly veers wildly off course and I find myself talking about Irene McKee, my fifth-grade teacher. Here's what I tell them.
