Taylor the Teacher

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!After I spent more hours than I want to admit this weekend making a voicethread to explicate “Monsters, Inc.” a student this morning said to me, loudly, in front of the class, “Why do you spend so much time […]

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The revelations I have had about the school system lately demand response from me. I honestly don’t see how I can continue in this system if it’s as bad as it seems to me right now –unless I thought I could do something to change the system. But the school system, from what I’ve seen, […]

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I just saw this on Twitter:
Now that I realize I am the only one capable of cleaning the kitchen will I still let it get to me?
that was from mandyg
If you need an explanation, you’d never understand.

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I can’t believe I didn’t find this sooner. It’s a testament to this organization’s mission that I seriously thought I was the only one who felt this way. I cannot even get access to real information about what’s going on at my own school. It’s like a concentration camp. Not in the sense that people […]

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I really enjoyed Buher’s post about why we teach. We do teach for the sweethearts in Geometry 9. And for the cutie who asked me whether or not people could see in color in the era of black and white films.
And the beautiful, energetic, talkative, bubbly freshman cheerleader in my second period who, today, was […]

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Ken’’s post, “What is School?” should be a meme. It’s dead on. School is all that and so much more. I alluded to something similar yesterday: we do not and will not know what we’re doing until we, well, know what we’re trying to do. The goal determines everything. School can only be an […]

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What does “being heard” in the blogosphere mean for changing schools? As an individual, it means nothing. But maybe a bunch of teacher bloggers together is a groundswell.

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Harry Wong warned me in grad school not to hang out in the teacher’s lounge. Too much negativity and hen cackling in there. I found that to be helpful advice more often than not.
My school barely has teacher’s lounges. That’s one way to solve the problem.
No reason to be overly negative, right?
But, on the other […]

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Why do we send kids to school in the winter & fall months, when their days are already short and getting shorter all the time? Then they’re off, doing nothing at all for 10 weeks (not twelve, is as commonly thought) when the days are longest?
The only acceptable answer is that it is what is […]

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This is a paper I wrote for a class I took in my Master’s Program called “Life of Tupac Shakur.” I found the class interesting, and thought I’d publish some of what I learned.

 
The year 1971 was a hell of a year to be born for anyone (I know, since I was born two weeks […]

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