Teacher Appreciation Week has once again come and gone. Lauding and applauding for five days,...

Teacher appreciation is something I think about a lot. When I was in the classroom full time, I...

“What if you chose to teach, because you could be anything.”

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

We’re kicking off our week of Tchers’ favorite things by...

American Education Week (November 13-17), first celebrated in 1921, is an opportunity to...

Five years ago, I wrote my first blog for Teaching Channel. I'd just had my first child and was...

It doesn’t seem possible that my time in the classroom is over.

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make adifference in our lives.”

I count myself among the richest in the world.

Yesterday was one of the tough days for me -- we’ve all had them -- when students seemed to push...

I wasn't born the daughter of a teacher. When I was in 8th grade, my mother, Marilyn, decided to...

Maybe it's the goodbye hug from a munchkin whose mischief you managed with grace.

For the past several years, I've used Teacher Appreciation Week to pay tribute to this wonderful...

I recently visited a set of schools in Chicago that are part of the Academy of Urban School...