New Blog By Secondary Educators for Secondary Educators

This new blog will address issues that arise in secondary schools that have in the past led to low performance by our students. It comes from the point of view that educators in secondary schools around the nation face many difficult issues that make the teaching of secondary students a great challenge. However, it also comes from the point of view that whatever challenges we face, we have to find ways to reach more and more of our students, no matter what they bring to our schools and classrooms. If we can't find a way to reach these students our entire society, socially and economically, will suffer. For many of our students, we the educators are their last opportunity to find a future of happiness and stability.

As a successful former teacher, principal, and district administrator for a large urban district in the USA, I have learned many things that I believe can help all of us to find ways to reach out to many more students, and accept their challenges as our challenges, and find ways to work with those students and their parents in order to raise the academic achievement opportunities for every secondary student.

If you agree with the goals of this blog, I hope that you will join me in ongoing conversations around what we have learned, can learn, and will learn from each other. I will place articles aligned to this topic from educational periodicals and articles that I have or others have written. Your additions to this blog will be greatly appreciated and will assist us all to deepen our own knowledge and build our own tool chest for improving our own work as we create the conditions for all students to achieve and for all adults to feel greater satisfaction in their career.

Thank you for reading and participating in this blog.

Larry Tash