Teaching High School English

Over the last few years, the demand for online teachers has been steadily growing. But now it’s exploded. The problem is, there are not enough teachers out there. If you’re thinking of starting your own online teaching business, there has never been a better time to do so. All you need is the right mindset, tools, and knowledge to help you reach thousands of students worldwide while earning a lucrative income.

An essay reflecting on thirty years of teaching in public schools.

Simon Pack’s protégé, Josh Panchrest, at age 29 has ferried through foster homes, suffered physical and psychic wounds in combat, stuck with an injured smokejumper during a night of horror, walked through a field of flames to save a mother and son, and suffered a career-ending injury. Now he again fights through all the setbacks seeking fulfillment in some new challenge. He has eyes on big-time football coaching, but after realizing that’s a pipe dream, he lands a job teaching and coaching at a small town high school. The town requires rejuvenation as much as Josh. A one-time economic...

Music in the Halls reveals the inner workings of a high-poverty District of Columbia Public School. In it, Jankowski brings to light the visceral and emotional nature of childhood poverty and trauma and how it not only impacts a student’s ability to learn but also how it restricts their ability to live a full life.

Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, All Day recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's Rikers Island. A poet and an actress who had done occasional workshops at the correctional facility, Peterson was ill prepared for a full-time stint teaching in the GED program for the incarcerated youths.

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This book is about addressing the college-choosing problem. The rankings, metrics, analytics, college visits, and advice that we use today to help us make these decisions are out of step with the progress individual students are trying to make. They don't give students and families the information and context they need to make such a high-stakes decision about whether and where to get an education.

Noteworthy Note Making: A Practical Critical Writing Solution for Every Classroom, shares with teachers a step-by-step plan for implementing meaningful note making in any classroom. Noteworthy Note Making is a transferable skill that students can use in school and life. Noteworthy Note Making improves student thinking about, and increases student retention of, content. Noteworthy Note Making when implemented correctly immerses students in a learning environment of high-yield instructional strategies. For schools and classrooms using The Fundamental 5 as an instructional framework, ...

Synopsis: A high school counselor’s life is ruined when he is wrongly accused by a cocaine snorting student. After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions. Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube. ★★★ If you enjoy this story, subscribe via our website to "After Dinner Conversation Magazine" and get ...

Does what it says on the tin. Top 10 tips for hitting the ground running for trainee teachers, newly qualified teachers, and teachers everywhere.

High school teacher Jack McCarthy endures a challenging day at an inner-city school in South Florida. During a rainstorm on the way home, he has an epiphany.

Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights, and defining your "purpose." It's time to go deep in search of truth! If you love reading imaginative short stories on hot topics that ...