For teachers, time is a precious commodity. That’s why I believe we need to incorporate Google Drive into our everyday teaching standards.

Not only do visual arts classes make space in a student’s day for creativity, they can also offer a chance to focus on something bigger.

Teaching is a great responsibility. I teach English and believe that the ability to communicate, at a personal and societal level, is what builds strong communities and ensures ownership over one’s future. Thus, it’s important that we teachers spend a lot of time on our craft—deliberating the best ways to teach and make lessons fun, interactive, and relatable to students. Professional development thrives on discipline pedagogy and school departments meet to align goals and assignments and to discuss data assessment.

As an elementary school art teacher, it is my job to engage my students and get them thinking critically about what and how they create.

In my classroom, I focus on taking the time to intentionally and thoughtfully form positive and meaningful relationships with my students.

I was recently involved with an art exhibition in the Thanet District of Kent, England, that helped students see themselves as artists, advocates, and changemakers.

Disciplinary problems were high, student achievement was low, and so was my patience. I knew I couldn’t do this again the following year, so I decided to change my approach.

University training prepares educators for a lot of scenarios on the job. But what it doesn’t prepare them for is the inevitable grief that comes with it.

In my role as a Black counselor in an educational setting, I am tasked with the unspoken responsibility of “handling” Black children.