Increasingly, teachers are playing an important leadership role in schools and districts as mentors and coaches for other educators. What does successful teacher leadership look like? What can you, as a teacher, do to move into a leadership position? Gayle Moller and Marilyn Katzenmeyer, co-authors of Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Helping Teachers Develop as Leaders and distinguished teacher Anthony Cody answered your questions.
(April 24, 2008)
Vanessa Camilleri, a social and emotional learning specialist and editor and co-author of Healing the Inner City Child, Creative Arts Therapies with At-risk Youth, took readers' questions.
(December 17, 2007)
Cathy J. Poplin, the deputy associate superintendent for educational technology for the Arizona Department of Education, was our guest for this lively discussion about Title IID of the No Child Left Behind Act, which mandates that school districts ensure that all students are proficient in technology use by 8th grade.
(November 28, 2007)
Author-educators Becky DuFour, Rick DuFour, and Anne Jolly took readers' questions on issues surrounding professional learning communities in schools.
(November 19, 2007)
Members of TeacherSolutions, a group advocating for performance pay for teachers, discussed the challenges and issues surrounding the topic.
(June 6, 2007)
Members of the Teacher Leaders Network fielded questions on career challenges and opportunities.
(May 3, 2007)
Representatives from the nation's top two teachers' unions discussed how their organizations are trying to influence the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.
(April 19, 2007)
Members of the Teacher Leaders Network discussed with our readers ideas for adding depth and creativity to lessons while still covering tested material.
(April 12, 2007)
Karen Isaacson and Tamara Fisher, the coauthors of "Intelligent Life in the Classroom—Smart Kids & Their Teachers," took questions on working with gifted children.
(March 19, 2007)
Susan Eaton, author of The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial, took questions on desegregation and educational disparities between the rich and the poor.
(February 12, 2007)
Our panel of guests and readers discussed new ways teachers are taking command of their own professional development experiences.
(January 24, 2007)
Ken Danford and Catherine Gobron of Northstar: Self-Directed Learning for Teens took questions on their alternative, unstructured education environment for high school-aged students.
(December 7, 2006)
Will Richardson, author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, took questions on the Internet's impact on teaching and learning and what it means for today's educators.
(October 10, 2006)
The editors of Teacher Magazine were online to discuss the relaunch of the magazine and its new format and focus.
(September 6, 2006)
Marty Mentzer, innovative North Carolina physical education teacher, discussed her Basketball Poets program and other alternative teaching and learning ideas.
(August 24, 2006)
Jim Burke, author of Letters to a New Teacher: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Year Ahead, and an English teacher at Burlingame High School in California, and Hanne Denney, a career-changer in her second year as a special education and social studies teacher at Arundel High School in Gambrills, Maryland and author of Teacher Magazine's blog, "Ready or Not," answered teachers' questions on preparation for the new school year.
(July 26, 2006)
Dan Otter, author of Teach and Retire Rich, took questions on retirement planning and other personal-finance issues.
(June 14, 2006)
Christopher B. Swanson, director of EPE Research Center and Caroline Hendrie, project editor of Technology Counts,
discussed the findings of this year's Technology Counts report and states' use of technology and data.
(May 5, 2006)
