In The Classroom

For the past decade, Milwaukee Public Schools enrollment has been falling with each passing year. Ten years ago, the district enrolled just over 90,000…

Theater achieves the ultimate ruse. The art form uses scripted words to tell a story, facades to suggest location and costumes to transform actors…

Most everyone seems to agree that parent involvement and community engagement are among the key factors for school success (though there is conflicting research…

This afternoon, the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) released the results of their annual National German Exam. Of the 20,000 high school…

Milwaukee-based Rethinking Schools, a national social justice magazine for educators, recently launched an Indiegogo campaign to crowd-fund a new book called “Rethinking Sexism, Gender…

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, I’m offering up an encore of this 2011 blog posting. This weekend, I found a tiny square photograph…

Chris Lazarski, a teacher at Wauwatosa West High School, has been named a 2014 PBS “LearningMedia” Digital Innovator by PBS “LearningMedia,” an on-demand digital…

The push back against testing in schools is all over the news lately, with protests across the country by parents and educators who believe…

Though a short list of four potential candidates has been circulating recently, veteran and recently retired Milwaukee Public Schools principal Dan Donder looks set…

When it comes to schools, communities often know best. Maybe not always, but often. And it looks like in the case of 81st Street…