Though I never had the words for it, I knew I was different from my peers when I was a kid. As the son of Indian immigrants, I looked for ways to push back against the pressure to assimilate and ...

Kindness toward others is often taught in elementary school, but it’s also important for students to extend it to themselves.

Earlier this year, I designed a “book tasting” for my middle school class that changed my career in a matter of days. Inspired by a National Council of Teachers of English initiative, I generated a ...

In this video I take you along for my first day back teaching in person as my students return to the classroom. From coffee ...

When I came to Achievement First Brooklyn High School eight years ago as the ninth grade literature teacher, it was my fourth year of teaching and my first time in a school that was unapologetically ...

When I tell colleagues that, on a daily basis, the students in my classroom both use computers and engage in rich conversations about math, I am often met with skepticism. When students learn from ...

Teaching in the fall semester was miserable — that frequent feeling of a student’s fingers slipping between mine, pulling away, and spiraling out into nothingness ...

As my students return to class this week, the newest equipment needed for school lockdowns will be there to greet them. It was delivered to my 11th-grade Advanced Placement Language and Composition ...