Editor's Note: Below is a repost from December 13, 2021, shared again on the release date of Harry Styles's fourth album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally-- and a sweet reminder of how much joy our students regularly bring us. Sometimes it is odd teaching at the same all-girls high school I attended. It is important to note at no point in high school was I a cool girl. My friends and I had a joint Disney princess themed 16th birthday party. We attended Lord of the Ring

I am one of many Americans who have spent the cold winter months wrapped up in the cottage knits and cozy fires of Skeldale House on the PBS show All Creatures Great and Small . I am drawn to the show as an animal lover but also because the veterinary care offered by Siegfried Farnum and James Herriot seems like the best of us humans; animals “always come first” so the vets frequently provide care for free to struggling villagers, accept gifts instead of money for services, a

If I know anything from my two decades of teaching, it is that students—almost without fail—love The Great Gatsby. For some, it is admittedly the first required book they truly read —and by that I mean one of the first books they religiously mark up, toss across the room in frustration, clutch longingly to their chests as they run into the classroom eager to discuss, or finish at least a week early because they just can’t wait. It is the promise of a love story that does it,

“Do we view ourselves as sole keepers of knowledge, or as facilitators of learning? Do we view ourselves as dominant over children, or can we have the humility to see ourselves walking shoulder to shoulder? Are we able to understand that children, if we allow it, teach us as much, if not more, about who we are and the world we live in as we teach them?” -Denise Augustine, Street Data Pod, Episode 3,  “Walking Shoulder to Shoulder with Children” This year I have framed my teac