Reflections 37 Years Later: My First Year of Teaching By: Jennifer Lichtsinn, Ph.D. I’ve been a teacher for a long time. My first teaching assignment began on October 2, 1986. That’s right, 1986, before most of you reading this were born. I started teaching shortly before my 22nd birthday. By October, the school year…
Teaching can be an Island; together, we can make an Archipelago By: Katelyn Kelsey, M.A., MEDL Educators—teachers, paraprofessionals, associated support providers, specialized teachers, and administrators—can feel lonely. Sometimes you’re on your own “island” in your classroom with your students and don’t see many adults. Administrators sometimes feel lonely at the top. Even with assistant principals,…
The Power of Storytelling By Melissa Walker, M.A.Ed. “Everything is a story.” This is one of the things I repeatedly told my high school English students. It didn’t matter if they were working on essays, creating Orwell-esque dystopian worlds, reading Shakespeare or poetry, writing personal narratives, completing job and college applications – everything is a…
Thank you Tucson Region Educators! By: Jen Kinser-Traut, Ph.D. “Within TREC I found a breath that blew life into who I was as a teacher. It gave us a new purpose, a group that was going to help bring that change around, a place to belong to as a teacher and not as part of…
