First of all, anyone who thinks that a teacher can’t tell the difference between a seventh or tenth graders story about honor and a computer-generated story has never experienced the wonderful beauty of teenagers telling stories. There is a frankness, an imagination, a chaos to it, that puts the reader in the kid’s head, that shines a little flashlight into what makes that kid tick. A story about honor generated from a prompt looks pretty much the same - a boy or man in a tow

"Boy, I love meeting people's moms. It's like reading an instruction manual as to why they're nuts." - Ted Lasso I was really looking...

One of the facts we love to say about learning is that students learn better from teachers they like. This may very well be true. One thing no one says aloud is that teachers teach better when they like their students!

As an educator in and out of the classroom since I first got my substitute teaching credential in 2002, I have failed at teaching more times than I would like to admit. While I have also had plenty of success at teaching and made an uncountable number of connections with wonderful young people, it’s these failures that I am curious to explore in a series of essays.