Ever since the first time I went to Europe back in 2021 I’ve been constantly thinking about what we could do to make America a better place. It turns out the way that we do things in this country is often not viewed as “normal” in other countries. There are so many things broken about…
I used to work at a boarding school and some of the things I saw were quite honestly … horrifying. I knew I’d be teaching rich kids – but there’s sooo much more to it than I realized beforehand. The kids I taught aren’t just rich kids, but a very specific subset of rich kids….
I taught at an awful public school in rural Arizona with no teacher training or experience at 24 years old. I had a degree in Math and had worked the prior 2 years in the corporate world and was looking for something new. I was able to get hired in AZ teaching 8th Grade Math…
Many aspects of charter schools sound awesome. A lot of these things sound great, and they really enticed me when I read first read about KIPP in Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers when I was 15 years old. Little did I know I’d be teaching in a KIPP school 10 years later! Problems with Charter Schools…
I used to be a teacher. I taught in public, charter, and boarding schools all across the country. I’ve had pretty much every different type of teaching experience you could have. I’ve also read a ton of books ranging from the “drill the kids on standardized tests” line of thinking (charter schools) to the “never…
I used to work as a teacher. In general, teachers don’t make much money, AND they’re not very good with money either. When you work as a teacher, since teachers often work 10 months out of the year, you’re often presented with the question – Do you want to be paid your salary over 10…