2020-2021. A school year like no other. Plexiglass and masks put literal barriers between us all, making it harder than ever to connect....

Don't tell Dr. Fauci, but I took 69 fifth graders on a field trip to New York City in a pandemic by myself. I don't know what made me...

The Museum Came to Us Any other year, I would have taken the kids on a field trip to the museum. In 2020, the museum had to come to us....

We all want our children in school, and we all want to be safe. Nobody is quite sure how to make that happen, but we do know the roles of...

A timeline. Every social studies classroom has one. Mine was up high, where the wall meets the ceiling. The teacher before me, or maybe...

1990. Summer School, a place nobody ever wants to be. One of my first teaching assignments, and nothing from my education classes...