The Teachers' Lounge (Uncensored)

Informationen zum Autor By Kelly Flynn Klappentext The Teachers' Lounge (Uncensored) gives you a peek inside that classroom. Kelly Flynn takes readers by the hand and says, "Come inside my school, walk a mile in my halls, and then we'll talk about education reform." With breathtaking clarity and a healthy dose of humor Kelly Flynn shares with readers what all teachers know; that when you teach in a public school there are days that you laugh, days that you cry, and days that you laugh until you cry. Each student is surprisingly, delightfully, wildly different, which is precisely why one-size-fits-all education does not work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter One - TeachersFrom first impressions and second chances to nuked fish and being punked.Chapter Two - StudentsFrom facing resistance and trashed bathrooms to cologne in the eye and getting skunked.Chapter Three - ParentsFrom absenteeism and grade inflation to prom paparazzi and the X-rated boogie.Chapter Four - CommunityFrom school safety and shuffled children to life in the fishbowl and dancing on cars.Chapter Five - PolicyFrom failing schools and merit pay to quirky brilliance and cleavage.

Autorentext

Kelly Flynn is an education writer, speaker, public school advocate, and newspaper columnist whose commentary ran in The Flint Journal and the Jackson Citizen Patriot. She taught high school in Flint, Michigan for nearly 20 years.

Klappentext

The Teachers' Lounge (Uncensored) gives you a peek inside that classroom. Kelly Flynn takes readers by the hand and says, "Come inside my school, walk a mile in my halls, and then we'll talk about education reform." With breathtaking clarity and a healthy dose of humor Kelly Flynn shares with readers what all teachers know; that when you teach in a public school there are days that you laugh, days that you cry, and days that you laugh until you cry. Each student is surprisingly, delightfully, wildly different, which is precisely why one-size-fits-all education does not work.

Inhalt

Chapter One - Teachers From first impressions and second chances to nuked fish and being punked. Chapter Two - Students From facing resistance and trashed bathrooms to cologne in the eye and getting skunked. Chapter Three - Parents From absenteeism and grade inflation to prom paparazzi and the X-rated boogie. Chapter Four - Community From school safety and shuffled children to life in the fishbowl and dancing on cars. Chapter Five - Policy From failing schools and merit pay to quirky brilliance and cleavage.