Teacher Blogs
Teacher Magazine hosts a variety blogs by and for classroom educators.
Teacher Magazine's editors look at what's new and noteworthy in educator blogs across the Web. (Sept. 2005 - )
Susan Graham has taught family and consumer science (formerly "home ec") for 25 years. She is a National Board-certified teacher, a former regional Virginia teacher of the year, and a Fellow of the Teacher Leaders Network. She invites readers to pull a chair up to her virtual table as she offers her voice-of-experience perspective on teaching today, with a special focus on teacher leadership and continuous professional growth. (Oct. 2007 - )
Donalyn Miller is a 6th grade language arts and social studies teacher in Texas who is said to have a "gift": She can turn even the most reluctant (or in her words "dormant") readers into students who can't put their books down. After responding to reader questions in her popular, "Creating Readers" Ask The Mentor column, Donalyn has returned to blog. She will write about how to inspire and motivate student readers, and respond to issues facing teachers and other leaders in the literacy field. (Nov. 2007 - )
Tamara Fisher, a gifted education teacher and co-author of Intelligent Life in the Classroom: Smart Kids and Their Teachers, discusses news and developments in the gifted education community and offers advice for teachers on working with gifted students. (Aug. 2007 - )
Chicago educator Amy Abeln chonicles her work at El Valor's Summer Camp, a free ecology and technology program for 9- to 14-year-olds kids in Chicago's predominantly Latino Pilsen neighborhood. Abeln says the camp, supported through community partnerships, has had a transformative effect on both her and her students.
(July 2007 - )
Jessica Shyu, program director for Teacher For America, writes about the lives of new teachers in today's schools, exploring their practice, experiences, and career challenges and opportunities. (July 2007 - )
“I can stop talking about teaching whenever I want to,” claims Emmet Rosenfeld, a veteran English teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va. Until he comes to terms with his Education Problem, enjoy this wide-ranging blog on teaching and learning in his classroom and beyond. (July 2007- )
Career changer and middle school special education teacher Hanne Denney offers thoughts on middle school pedagogy, career change, and the teaching life.
(July 2007 - )
Education Week Blogs
Leading education thinkers Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch engage in an ongoing conversation about what matters most for today's students, educators, and policymakers.
The latest news on the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act by Education Week reporter David J. Hoff, who has been reporting on the biggest issues in K-12 education for more than 10 years.
Veteran Education Week reporter Mary Ann Zehr tackles difficult policy questions, explores learning innovations, and shares stories about different cultural groups on her beat.
Roslyn Johnson Smith, a veteran school administrator in New Orleans, chronicles the highs and lows of starting over in the city's new educational landscape.
Kevin Bushweller is an assistant managing editor for edweek.org who has 18 years of experience covering K-12 education for national and regional publications. A father of four children—ages 3, 8, 11, and 14—he is particularly interested in tackling the question: What works, and what doesn't work, to motivate students to do better in school?
Students at the Center is a 12-year-old writing and digital-media program for students in two New Orleans high schools, co-directed by educators Jim Randels and Kalamu ya Salaam. This blog highlights the students' work.
Archived Teacher Magazine Blogs
J. Shyu, a second-year special education teacher on an American Indian reservation, chronicles the good, the bad, and the occasionally amusing of being a young teacher at an underresourced rural school. (Sept. 2006 - June 2007)
Veteran English teacher Emmet Rosenfeld chronicles his quest for national-board certification. (Feb. 2006 - June 2007)
Barbara Purn, a 2nd grade teacher in Seattle, recounts a professional-development excursion to Africa. (June 2006 - July 2006 - )
Autumn Mundy, an education major at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., writes about her experiences training in a high-needs elementary in Indianapolis. (Aug. 2005 - Dec. 2005 )
Hanne Denney, a mid-40s career-changer, reflects on the challenges and rewards of starting anew as a teacher. (Sept. 2005 -June 2007 )
Exiled by Hurricane Katrina, a New Orleans teacher chronicles his efforts to rebuild his student-writing program and find his way back home. (Oct. 2005 - Dec. 2005)
Betsy Rogers, a 20-year teaching veteran and the National Teacher of the Year in 2003, reflects on working in one of Alabama's neediest schools. (Feb. 2005 - May, 2005)
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