My Covid-19 Teaching Year
It seems appropriate that the 2020-2021 school year in Portland, Oregon, began amid toxic smoke from the catastrophic wildfires that blanketed many parts of the state for almost two weeks. The night…
Belle Chesler
The “Great” Reopening Or Setting America’s Schools Up to Fail
Seventeen years ago, against the advice of my parents, I decided to become a public school teacher. Once I did, both my mother and father, educators themselves, warned me that…
Teaching Across an Abyss of Silence
Do you hear that silence? That’s the absence of footsteps echoing through our nation’s public school hallways. It’s the silence of teaching in a virtual space populated with students on…
Belle Chesler: Making American Schools Less Great Again
A Lesson in Educational Nihilism on a Grand Scale Three weeks ago, I sat in a cramped conference room in the large public high school where I teach in Beaverton,…
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