After reading a recent blog, suggesting that teachers should self-censor and stay politically inactive, I feel compelled to write this blog.  Telling teachers to shut up and focus on their classrooms is like telling Martin Luther King Jr to shut up and preach or Schindler to shut up and run a factory.  The truth is that, if we want to ...

Over the last few weeks, we began drawing a mural that will span an entire building.  Students stay after school, recieving no money, no extra credit; just the satisfaction of excercising their creativity.  It's hard, at times, for me to step back and let them make mistakes.  I'm a recovering perfectionist.  Last week, for ...