Can someone please cue Alice Cooper now?
The last bell rang on June 8th this year, the earliest since I started teaching 21 years ago. This was partially due to the fact that our system got rid of…
Start In The Backyard
Top of Tumbledown Mountain, Weld, Maine. Photo by Erin Towns.
Simple Questions, Complex Answers
”Hey Ms. Towns, can ice sheets and glaciers really fully melt and disappear…
Change In A Time of COVID: Teacher Perspective
What Is Happening?
ELHS teacher, Mercedes Czlapinski’s shirt gives voice to the early days of coming back to the 2020-2021 school year. (Photo by…
Born And Raised To Teach History
I was born to two history fanatics. As such, my early days were devoid of trips to Disney World. Instead every summer my parents would pack up the old brown…
Surviving the PolarTREC Application Process
As a teacher there is one thing that absolutely terrifies me. Sweat rings. There is nothing worse for a high school teacher than a bunch of students…
