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Teaching is a 9–3 job in the same way parenting is just birthday parties and Instagram photos. In a previous post on Becoming a Teacher and the work of a teacher, I wrote about what teachers actually do beyond the hours the public sees. It was anecdotal. It was based on my lived experience and others’, tiredContinue reading “Teaching: Better Paid, Still Broken”

Every few years, we’re told the classroom has to be reinvented. Gen Z students learn differently. Gen Alpha will need something else entirely. Now Gen Z teachers are arriving, and apparently, they’re a new challenge too. The result is what I call generational whiplash. Gen Z supposedly required “21st century skills” (as if critical thinkingContinue reading “TikTok Kids, Burnt-Out Teachers, and the Illusion of Reinventing School”

There’s a certain look you develop after a few decades in education. A kind of squint. Part suspicion, part fatigue, part “Please don’t say ‘21st century learning’ again.” It’s the look of someone who has taught with passion, researched with hope, and been burnt by the same five ideas recycled every ten years with newContinue reading “Why Every Fix for Education Makes Something Else Worse”

This year has been one of upheaval, innovation, and the same old gripes in education. If you’ve been reading my blogs, you already know I’m a bit of a cynic and I sound like a broken record, but let’s face it—education is one of those fields that’s always “on the brink of change,” yet somehowContinue reading “Edtopia 2024: Hype, Hope, and the Same Old Headaches”