Teacher Blogs
Education Week Teacher hosts a variety of blogs by and for classroom educators.
Teacher's take on the latest news, ideas, and resources for teacher leaders. Coverage runs the gamut from the inspirational to the infuriating, from practical classroom tips to raging policy debates, and from "news you can use" to "news of the weird." (Apr. 2010 - )
Teaching Ahead, an interactive project jointly developed by Education Week Teacher and the Center for Teaching Quality, is designed to bring greater exposure to the ideas of standout classroom educators on the future of their profession. Each month, selected teacher panelists will be asked to respond to and discuss key issues in education policy and instructional practice. The discussions are intended to help inform the national conversation on the direction of public schools. (Oct. 2011 - )
An award-winning English teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif., Larry Ferlazzo is the author of Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers To Classroom Challenges and English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies That Work. In this blog, he will address readers' questions on classroom management, ELL instruction, lesson planning, and other issues facing teachers. (Aug. 2011 - )
Marilyn Anderson Rhames is a science teacher at a charter school in Chicago and holds masters degrees in education and journalism. A former reporter for People and Time, she also won various awards while at Newsday and The Journal News in New York. An educator for eight years, Marilyn is currently a Teaching Policy Fellow with Teach Plus and the founder of a start-up nonprofit called Teachers Who Pray. This blog offers her perspectives on health and wellness in the classroom, charter schools, and the need for education reform. (Aug. 2011 - )
The leadership team of Learning Forward (formerly NSDC), a nonprofit advocate of high-quality professional development in schools, keeps you up to date on the latest in teacher learning and its connection to student achievement. (Dec. 2010 - )
David Ginsburg (aka Coach G) specializes in instructional coaching, leadership coaching, and teacher training. He has three decades of experience in business and education, including 17 years as a teacher, instructional coach, and school leader. He invites readers to join him in sharing and discussing classroom practices and resources. (Sept. 2010 - )
Nancy Flanagan, a National Board-certified 30-year veteran of the classroom and former Michigan Teacher of the Year, is an education writer and consultant focusing on teacher leadership.(Jan. 2010 - )
Patrick Ledesma is a National Board-certified teacher and School Based Technology Specialist in Fairfax, Virginia, where he focuses on instructional-technology integration and special education at the middle school level. For the 2010-2011 school year, Patrick is serving as a Classroom Fellow with the U.S. Department of Education's Teacher Ambassador Fellowship Program, as well as working on teacher recruitment and outreach for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. The opinions represented in this blog are his own. (Sept. 2010 - )
After 18 years as a science teacher in inner-city Oakland, Calif., Anthony Cody now works with a team of experienced science teacher-coaches who support the many novice teachers in his school district. He is a National Board- certified teacher and an active member of the Teacher Leaders Network. With education at a crossroads, he invites you to join him in a dialogue on education reform and teaching for change and deep learning. (June 2008- )
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 returns to blog. She writes about how to inspire and motivate student readers, and responds to issues facing teachers and other leaders in the literacy field. To reach Donalyn directly, email her at thebookwhisperer@gmail.com. (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 - )
Education Week Blogs
Mary-Ellen Phelps Deily is a veteran editor and reporter who has worked for Education Week and its nonprofit publisher in a variety of roles over the past decade-plus. She is also a parent with a personal interest in finding out more about expanding learning.
Leading education thinkers Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch engage in an ongoing conversation about what matters most for today's students, educators, and policymakers.
Caralee Johnson Adams has worked as a journalist for nearly 25 years, covering education, health, parenting, and other issues.
A wide-ranging forum for discussing school curriculum across the subject areas with Education Week reporters Sean Cavanagh, Kathleen Kennedy Manzo, and Mary Ann Zehr.
Education Week reporters Katie Ash and Kathleen Kennedy Manzo cover tech topics and trends in K-12 education.
Education Week reporter Christina A. Samuels follows the latest developments in the nations’ school districts and digs into the issues, successes, and controversies surrounding education leadership and management.
Maureen Kelleher covered Chicago's public schools for over a decade. Now a contributing writer to Education Week, she examines early childhood education through two lenses: newshound and mom of a one-year-old.
Veteran reporter Debra Viadero dissects findings affecting schools and shares news about education research for audiences extending far beyond the Ivory Tower.
Veteran Education Week reporter Mary Ann Zehr tackles difficult policy questions, explores learning innovations, and shares stories about different cultural groups on her beat.
The first group blog by school leaders for school leaders, LeaderTalk expresses the voice of the administrator in this era of school reform.
Justin Baeder is a public school principal in Seattle and a doctoral student studying principal performance and productivity at the University of Washington. In this blog he aims to examine issues of performance, improvement, and the changing nature of the education profession.
Education Week's Christina A. Samuels tracks news and trends of interest to the special education community, including administrators, teachers, and parents.
Michele McNeil and Alyson Klein provide regular coverage of political developments that affect education at the federal and state levels.
Education policy maven Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute think tank offers straight talk on matters of policy, politics, research, and reform.
Sara Mead is a senior associate with Bellwether Education Partners who writes about education policy, with particular attention to early childhood education, school reform, and improving educational outcomes for low-income students.
Education Week news producer Bryan Toporek brings you K-12 sports coverage that reaches far beyond box scores. He has written about education for Education Week Teacher, high school sports for the Falls Church News-Press in Virginia, and is a former NBA Team Leader for bleacherreport.com.
News and analysis on legal developments affecting schools, educators, and parents, written by Mark Walsh, contributing writer to Education Week, who has been covering legal issues in education for more than 17 years.
Sean Cavanagh covers state education policy—elections, news, and assorted trends and tidbits—for Education Week. He previously worked as a reporter for newspapers in Tennessee and Florida.
Stephen Sawchuk comes to the teacher beat at Education Week after covering federal education policy.
Walt Gardner taught for 28 years in the Los Angeles Unified School District and was a lecturer in the UCLA Graduate School of Education.
Richard Whitmire, a former editorial writer at USA Today and past board president of the National Education Writers Association, is a frequent commentator on national education issues.
Archived Teacher Magazine Blogs
2009 National Teacher of the Year Anthony Mullen chronicles his experiences as he travels the country visiting schools and talking with educators and policymakers.(Sept. 2009 - Aug. 2010 )
Teacher Magazine's editors look at what's new and noteworthy in educator blogs across the Web. (Sept. 2005 - Apr. 2010 )
"I can stop talking about teaching whenever I want to," claims Emmet Rosenfeld. A former English teacher at the renowned Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., Rosenfeld has recently transitioned to a position as English teacher and Dean of Students at the Congressional Schools of Virginia in Falls Church, 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 - August 2009)
Jessica Shyu, program director for Teach For America, writes about the lives of new teachers in today's schools, exploring their practice, experiences, and career challenges and opportunities. (July 2007 - June 2009)
Jessica 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)
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 - August 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 - July 2008)
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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