On Teaching
The most experienced teachers in America’s education system reflect on their careers, their schools, and the history they’ve witnessed.
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Deborah Roffman / The Atlantic The Questions Sex-Ed Students Always Ask
For 45 years, Deborah Roffman has let students’ curiosities guide her lessons on sexuality and relationships.
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Tracy Murray / The Atlantic What School Could Be If It Were Designed for Kids With Autism
Tracy Murray’s kindergarten classroom in New York City has a unique approach to supporting students on the spectrum.
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Solomon Enos How to Save a Dying Language
The Hawaiian language nearly went extinct. Now it’s being taught in dozens of immersion schools.
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Michelle Martin / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Every Child Can Become a Lover of Books
Michelle Martin, a professor at the University of Washington, helps librarians create spaces that are welcoming to kids of all backgrounds.
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Judith Harper / The Atlantic How to Keep Teachers From Leaving the Profession
After 38 years in education, Judith Harper thinks what teachers are missing is more time to learn from one another.
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Renee Moore / The Atlantic What If Teachers Didn’t Focus So Much on Individual Achievement?
Renee Moore has been working at nearly all-black high schools in the Mississippi Delta for the past two decades for a reason: to raise up the whole community.
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Angela Crawford / AP / Hulton Archive / ... What It’s Like to Teach at One of America’s Least Racially Integrated Schools
Angela Crawford has taught English at a Philadelphia high school for 23 years. Not many veteran black teachers like her are left nationwide.
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Chuck Yarborough / Everett Historical / vkilikov / ... How to Teach the Civil War in the Deep South
One veteran Mississippi teacher is forgoing textbooks for the local archives.
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Deborah Cornelison / Shutterstock / The Atlantic How a Teacher in Rural Oklahoma Started a Science-Fair Dynasty
To get her students interested in STEM, Deborah Cornelison shows them how science projects can improve their community.
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Pirette McKamey / Jitti Warrawutwittaya / Shutterstock / ... How to Make Students Care About Writing
Pirette McKamey, a veteran English teacher, spent 30 years investigating what helps young people to view themselves as writers.
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Rebecca Palacios / The Atlantic A Witness to the Desegregation—and Resegregation—of America's Schools
Rebecca Palacios began teaching soon after a landmark court case mandated integration of Latino schools—and watched the case's effects weaken over decades.
