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It was my first classroom observation as a new teacher, and I was terrified. I was only about six weeks into my first year teaching middle school English and literature when my supervisor, language and education specialist Dr. Katy Lichon , came to Fort Worth to evaluate my practice, and I was well...

Sponsored by CREO and the Notre Dame Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research, Dr. Sean Reardon of Stanford University presented "Education, Opportunity, and Inequality in America" on Friday, September 21, 2018. Sean Reardon is the endowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education...

For our first installment of the #WhyITeach series, the CLE is pleased to spotlight an incredible educator, Emma Fleming. Ms. Fleming is a fourth-grade teacher at Our Lady of Fatima School in Stockton, California. She taught elementary school music in Ireland and is serving her second year as an ACE...

Early on in graduate school, I was tasked with teaching a multicultural, young adult literature undergraduate class because of my experience as a secondary literacy teacher. Despite my nearly decade-long experience teaching young adults, I was terrified to teach this class because the few...

In 2008, I was asked to move up to teach seventh- and eighth-grade science. With this change, I inherited our school's annual middle school science fair. Students created individual projects using the scientific method and were judged by parent volunteers. Unsurprisingly, students created many...

In Part 2 of Dr. Kati Macaluso's blog post on supporting writers in the home, she continues the work she began in Part 1 . In Part 1, Dr. Macaluso explained how she sees her own children emerging as writers, and she offered strategies for how all parents can foster their children's natural...