An Apple or a Rotten Tomato for the Teacher?

teacher 1

We are both named Natalie.  We both work in high schools.  We both teach English.  We both blog.  But that is where the similarities end. Last week, a story broke about this other Natalie, a 30-year-old teacher in a suburban Philadelphia school, who was suspended with pay for writing insulting posts about students, parents, and [...]

The Agony and The Ecstasy: Summer Reading

note2

18 years ago this week found a desperate, 17-year-old me scrambling to secure a VHS copy of The Elephant Man from my local library because school was starting and I had yet to read the required (and dreaded) Summer Reading assignment*!  Now friends, believe me when I tell you that cribbing on a test was waaay harder before the [...]