Insights from Educate, 20th Edition — Welcome to Insights from Educate, a curated biweekly newsletter of professional learning and inspiration from authentic voices in education. I have watched in dismay as districts around the country have begun to dismantle gifted programs in attempts to provide “accelerated learning” for all students. There is no question that the…

Insights from Educate, 19th Edition — Welcome to Insights from Educate, a curated biweekly newsletter of professional learning and inspiration from authentic voices in education. Whew! It has been a year. Well, it’s been two years, really. We now use Zoom as a verb and have realized the extent of our digital inequalities. Teachers that were…

Insights from Educate, 18th Edition — Welcome to Insights from Educate, a curated weekly newsletter of professional learning and inspiration from authentic voices in education. You did it! The end of the school year is nigh. The school year for my children started remotely and moved to brick-and-mortar in September. …

Insights from Educate, 17th Edition — Welcome to Insights from Educate, a curated weekly newsletter of professional learning and inspiration from authentic voices in education. My newsfeed has been filled to the brim with updates regarding initiatives to ban critical race theory in schools across the U.S. …

Insights from Educate, 16th Edition — Welcome to Insights from Educate, a curated weekly newsletter of professional learning and inspiration from authentic voices in education. I am sure many of you were just as appalled as I was when this video was released of a Florida principal paddling a young child, while her mother secretly filmed it no less. Using a paddle to discipline a student is referred to as corporal punishment and is surprisingly…

Insights from Educate, 15th Edition — Welcome to Insights from Educate, a curated weekly newsletter of professional learning and inspiration from authentic voices in education. Consider these stats: middle-class families spend 14% of their income on childcare while lower-income families spend upwards of 35%. To be honest, this seems a little low. My husband and I are both teachers, and when our children were young, we struggled to pay for daycare while we worked. …

Insights from Educate, 14th Edition — Welcome to Insights from Educate, the 14th edition of a curated weekly newsletter focused on providing you the latest in education news, research, and professional learning. As a new teacher, I made the rookie mistake of grading every task I assigned to my students. Grading student work became a form…

Insights from Educate, 13th Edition — If there is ever a year that teachers need to be appreciated, it’s this one. If you are a parent that temporarily became a teacher in remote learning, then you deserve appreciation too. It is often said that it takes a village to educate a child. At my daughters’ elementary…

Insights from Educate, 12th Edition — As a new teacher, I assigned a 10% participation grade to my students. I methodically scribbled check-marks onto my handy clipboard. The student answered a question, check. The student read a passage voluntarily, check. The student cast eyes downward and didn’t raise a hand at any point, no check. It…