The Teacher as Adventurer
When I think about teaching as an adventure, I cannot help but recall the year our high school wind ensemble set out […]
Issue: December 2015
The Hipster’s Guide to the Galaxy, or The Importance of Being Earnestly Relevant
Bible teacher Cal VanderMeer sat alone on a Monday morning, enjoying a quiet cup of coffee before school began. He had just […]
Of Tenacity and Morning Glories
When I was in college, I had a summer job working at a plant nursery. I spent hours weeding and hoeing, and, […]
Teacher Talk
You don’t need a calendar to know that school is back in session. Campuses across the country are freshly manicured, halls are […]
The Teacher as Guide
When Jon Krakauer published Into Thin Air about the Everest disaster of 1996, the world suddenly became interested in Mount Everest and […]
The Teacher as Refugee
My experience in education has been colorful. My formation as an educator began as a North American transplanted to and growing up […]
The Teacher as Pilgrim
In 2012, when Emilio Estevez released his film, The Way, many people began to talk about walking on the Camino de Santiago. […]
The Teacher as Tourist
We have all met tourists. Tourists are the people we see with fanny packs and cameras around their necks; they usually stick […]
The Teacher as Traveler
For most of us, the term traveler evokes imagery of journey and voyage, but as the etymology of the term viator clarifies, […]
The Educator’s Journey(s)
In our careers as educators, we have all seen a wide variety of approaches that our colleagues take to do their work. […]