The second time I spotted a cell phone tucked inside a copy of the class novel within one week, I knew I was not exactly witnessing a rare unicorn. Fake reading, even blatant Instagram swiping instead of Dickens analyzing, was no singular oddity. It was
This post is an excerpt from Ch. 4 of Dignity for All: Safeguarding LGBT Students When we open a good book and read about a character that we identify with, it’s like the weight of the world goes away and everything around us is going to
While visiting a classroom where the teacher had introduced a new topic in mathematics, I asked her how the children’s understanding of the topic was progressing. She said that she did not know because the children had not written the unit test. Her response perplexed