Tag: teaching

• Tracking in Schools Inevitable

  Origins of my Educator’s Edge: When I was a sophomore at a Department of Defense high school in Germany, I struggled with geometry. My brain hadn’t fully developed to make abstraction and spatial reasoning easy. Plus, I’d had a lousy experience with an algebra teacher who’d repeatedly made fun of my name. Let’s just say,…

  fedorewriter

  January 22, 2026

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  advanced placement courses, career education, college readiness, education, learning, master schedule building, school principal, student tracking, teachers, teaching

• Phys Ed has changed for good

  The shriek of the whistle pierced our ears. The thud, thud, thud of our sports shoes echoed in the gym; our arms trembled from supporting our torso as our legs pumped like pistons; and our PE teacher barked out, “Two hundred more to go. Keep counting!” Thud, thud. “One.” Thud, thud. “Two.” At least thirty five of us…

  fedorewriter

  December 8, 2025

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  1970s, education, fitness, PE, physical education, Presidential Fitness test, school, social emotional health, teaching