NCTE High School Matters

March rears her head in just a day or so, and with her, she brings the state testing for which I’ve been preparing my students. The only th...

I raised my voice to a student yesterday. It wasn’t worth it. She’s been absent for more than a month, and she called me with a list of reas...

Well, quite frankly, I don’t think many of my students use this orphan-like phrase when they ask me to forget the past and let them begin ag...

As seniors in high school, my friend and I used to pass notes about our English teacher’s clothes. We did this because her fabulous clothes ...

Okay, so I’m not the teacher I like to be every day. Some days I’d evaluate my own teaching as “eh.” Yesterday, my lesson ended 10 minutes e...

Who are they? Our department chairs. Our deans. Our principals. Our students. Our students’ parents. According to The New York Times ,...

I’m teaching a new prep for the first time in several years, and I’ve forgotten how it feels. Yes, I know where I have to get students in th...