A recent study examining the potency of self-affirmation in addressing the gender gap has shown some startling results that could be easily applied in any classroom. Women are often outperformed by men on test scores in many of the hard …
Marissa Perez is 15 years old. She is a student in my creative writing class. The quotation below is her response to the first assignment I gave the class. My assignment was, “articulate an emotional state”. As a teacher, I …
The first time I ever faced a classroom of adolescents as a teacher was in the fall of 2004 in Springfield, MA, at my own old high school, in fact. As might be expected in a large urban public high …
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