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“Caleb!” My co-teacher strolled into the teacher’s office, not surprised to find me nose deep in my kindle. “You should stop reading so much.” I turned my head,…

In what world does a lowly lieutenant colonel give a half-dozen top-secret briefings to four-star generals, then go back to paper pushing and being refused computer time by…

Presidential elections. 9/11. The only national moments where American schools intentionally wait for history to pass by. Here, in the midst of midterm cramming and 10am class,  SBS1, one…

Holding the print copy of the issue, a publication that took months of planning, designing, and a fair share of headaches, I should have felt pride, or at…

“The past year and a half alone in Korea has changed the landscape considerably.” As this PhD researcher continued presenting at the Fulbright spring conference last week, I…

“Teacher, you’re my role model.” What a bomb to drop on the foreign teacher you only see once a week, for less than an hour. How did we…

I think I wore velcro shoes until I was eight or ten. Coolness wasn’t the factor—it was about efficiency. Tying shoes took my little hands so much time…

Winnowing, v. — the act of freeing grain from chaff by wind or driven air. Also: a method of evaluating raw ideas. This uncommon word has coincidentally appeared twice in readings from this past week. One in a…

As the quarter-mark of 2018 draws near, the main highlight has not been one of practicing strengths but instead, has been related to becoming more aware of my…

A crop of new teachers on one-year contracts has arrived, coinciding with the first week of a new school year. In the shuffle, my former co-teacher, or the…