Jasmine Monroe: When I think of community at Sherwood Middle School, I think of daily reminders that I am not in this alone. The beginning of this year was difficult, to say the least. There were many days when I sat at my front door literally...
16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who...
You don’t need me to remind you how injustice relentlessly attacks our schools, administrators, parents, and students. Our world desperately needs Jesus. We pray and ask Jesus to fix the brokenness, but that healing begins in our hearts. As I pour myself out for the...
Emily Taubken, MTR Class of 2014, was named K-4 Teacher of the Year for Shelby County Schools. Emily teaches 3rd grade at Kingsbury Elementary School in the Graham Heights neighborhood. Tuesday, Superintendent Dorsey Hopson and Chief of Schools Sharon Griffin visited her classroom to present the...
Holiday season entails multiple well-meaning, sincere people asking me the impossibly broad question “how is school?” This question is ripe with possibility; one word does not suffice nor often does an entire conversation. When asked this question by people I love, I simply want to...
I am a first year teacher at Treadwell Elementary and teach English as a Second Language (ESL) to first and second graders. As an ESL teacher, I provide language support to small groups of multilingual students for one hour each day....
As you may or may not know, planning and preparing for a self-contained classroom can be a bit much. Between phonics, grammar, comprehension, writing, vocabulary, math, science, social studies, and guided reading plans PLUS all of the manipulatives and station work you have to create,...
Author: David Montague, MTR Executive Director MTR will honor Dr. King in a variety of ways this spring in remembrance of his life and death 50 years ago this April 4th. This post – a short review of his Letter from Birmingham Jail - is but...
One of the first smiling faces I saw when I walked into W.H. Brewster Elementary was of the principal, Dr. Angela Askew. I was immediately drawn to her warm personality. Our meeting gave me insight as to who she is as a person and as...
One of the hardest parts about teaching is that so much of it is in your own mind. Even though I’m in a room full of children, the experience often feels independent. I know the questions running through my mind are sometimes miles away from...