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Sex Ed: One Teacher Dares to Talk Honestly with His Students

Why one teacher asks his students to respect and love each other enough to wait to have sex until they're ready.

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A Case for Creative Rule-breaking

Kids crave firm, consistent rules. A teacher's perspective on how we might creatively enforce them.

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Dear Teacher: I Quit

A teacher helps his students make fewer mistakes in their own lives by sharing with them some of his own.

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Meet Danny, the Jungle Man

A teacher is reminded that the lessons that really stick are rarely a part of the official course material.

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Apples, Matt Damon, and Online Education

A teacher's mental journey from apples to the consequences of students learning online in their spare time

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Do Teachers Disappear on Weekends and Holidays?

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Is This Really the Best a Man Can Get?

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Balancing Work with Preferred Work

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What Tree-planting Taught Me

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Writing Down the Demons

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Teaching Recycled Brains

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Should Teachers Friend Their Students?

On Facebook, how classroom rules do and do not apply. In real life, people don't just usually walk right up to you and ask...

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Dancing Towards Uncertainty

How to encourage students to remain uncertain for just long enough. Brandon is one of the brightest students to ever take my...

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The Case for Creative Dismantling

In the classroom, the danger of failing to engage students' creativity.Last spring, towards the end of my first year as a...

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