How do teachers captivate their students? Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask great educators how they approach their jobs.
Government can feel far away and abstract. Kimberly Huffman helps her students use their voice and understand the Electoral College.
In a partisan political landscape, these students learn to research issues and make informed choices
Jarryd Hudock teaches English and social studies to middle schoolers at Samuel Gompers School in Philadelphia. He offers his students a glimpse into Black history and Black author studies.
Civics teacher Lem Wheeles wants his students to know the government is made up of people just like them.
Illinois School Counselor of the Year Marisa Mathews says collaboration is key in helping students post-pandemic
This MSCS third grade teacher was one of three educators to win a national project-based learning award.
Jasmine Baker loves getting students excited about the Declaration of Independence.
“There's a way that you walk differently when you have certain experiences behind or within you,” said Bijoun Eric Jordan, who teaches at Frederick Douglass Academy VII High School.
Alicia Alvarez helps students at Western International High School in southwest Detroit to envision, and obtain, a path to higher education. But there’s no shortage of obstacles standing in the way.
Dr. Elisa Margarita, winner of a 2024 Math for America Muller Award, brings science to life at Brooklyn Tech, the nation’s largest high school.
Writing for Perspicacity Magazine isn’t like a class assignment, teacher Ben Boruff said. Students have to be brave to put their work out for all to read.
Rachael Mahmood, the Illinois 2024 Teacher of the Year, focuses on creating lessons that affirm her students’ identities and interests.
Lina Zapta is an educator at North Star Academy’s Washington Park High School, where the English learner turned Spanish teacher works to make her classroom ‘a space of trust and comfort.’
William C. Bryant School Principal Bahir Hayes wants to show young Black kids that they can achieve success like he did.
History often pays attention to Oliver Brown and the male lawyers behind the landmark case. But 12 Black mothers from Kansas also played a crucial role in challenging inequities in their children’s schools.
Mock legal and legislative proceedings dispel notions of teen disengagement in Adam Williamson’s class.
A trip to the Arctic inspired Brooklyn Prospect High School’s Caitlyn Homol to create a unit exploring “the relationship between motivation, action, and climate attitudes.”
Yajaira Fuentes-Tauber’s students have won $13,000 through a contest aimed at improving watershed health.
Jon Wilcox, the principal at Petoskey Middle School, grows Christmas trees on his property and raises honey bees in his spare time.