Folder or Crumpler
During a time of racial crisis, we went to an abbreviated day with no study halls nor lunch. In the En Dept., we taught …
Mistaken for Youth
The time I went to the office at Syracuse Central Tech HS (my alma mater) and requested a ream of paper … The secretary …
Grade posting
Wonder if I could do this in 2014 … I began teaching English in 1969 at the urban high school from which I was …
The Bodyguard
Two years before I retired, in a blitz of budget cuts, I had helped to cut my own job in order to save staff. …
Poetry meets 20,000 Children
Twenty+ years ago, the Comstock Writers Group (publishers of the national poetry journal Comstock Review) determined that it was important to support the poetry …
The Halloween Lesson
Perhaps the most memorable class that I remember took place the day after Halloween. I think it was an all African-American class, probably Grade …
The “Urban” High School
On my very first day of teaching, I was standing outside my classroom between classes. It was the end of the 60s and the …
The Magical Summer of Film
It has been over forty years since the film premiere of Ashes From A Long Dead Fire (I would later use this title for …
The Fire Alarm
During my first week of teaching, I was in the hall between classes. We were instructed to be there in order to monitor the …
The color of our skin
At one point, I had four divisions. The most critical was my supervision of the 32 Library Media Specialists who served our K-12 babies …