Sitemap - 2023 - Know the Teacher Left Behind

So. Happy 2024. (!)

When A Friend Dies Homeless

Learning Targets & Targeting Teachers (Part One)

New song: "Baby Jesus Lying in the Rubble"

After All the Official Time Outs

Favorite Professors (Part One)

Requiem for Rodriguez

"Detroit"

When An Old Friend Moves Out of the D

Elegy to an Asymptomatic Acrobat

American Friction

War Poems #101 (When Heaven Parted) & #102

Getting My Reps with Leah at Inspiring Rep

My Substack Anniversary

Marla In-Between (Act Two, Scene Two)

Count Day Consternation

Angels Leaving Sepsis (Excerpt)

Pausing with Appreciative Parent

Urban Teacher Dilemma #9

Marla In-Between

Sunflower Serenade

Ground Zen (Excerpt)

Curricular and Circular Drives

Meet the Teach on the Labor Day March

Interview with a Misidentified Narcissist?

The Greatest Baseball Game Ever Played

De-accelerating from 105 mph at 3:00 am, Northern Kentucky, March 19, 1995

Stumbling Upon Public School Utopias

From One Odd Educator to Another

A Covid Video Interview: January 5, 2021

Email Distress Calls

The Story of Detroit's Majesty Crush

Peter Werbe’s Fresh Bites on "Eat the Rich"

When the Arrow Points Away

The Return of Son of Dead Kennedys

Resign/Fired Drills

When a Consultant Convulsed

The Brilliance of Limerence

Donor Drive

So Black People Don’t Swim?

Quasi-Commercial

What are we going to do now?

Dispatches from Summer School (2013)

When the Students' Favorite Teacher Taught. . . Math

Light Switch

Nasty-grams as Teachable Moments?

The Year We Surrendered the Spring

Graduate-son

Blood, Sweat & Theater

How Gun Violence is Changing Michigan School Policies

The Day Teacher Appreciation Day Went Awry

Confessions of a Collegiate Bigamist

Finding Unity with the Teacher's Union

The Garden of Ether

The Tyranny of the Tests

POETRY AND BASEBALL

Detroit Today: Do students feel safe amid rise in school shootings in America?

When Your School Wins Its First State Basketball Title

The Fulminologist Romances

Preface: When Violence Becomes an Acronym

Mentioning My Arrest at My Job Interview

Lost Moments with Lost Students

Author Announcements

Backstory of the Band

Short Scene Preview to Annual Exchange Day

The Passing of an Anarchist Prankster

Edge of the City on the Edge of Integration

Remorse Code

Stolen Goods

When The #1 High School Team Has No Fans

The Billionaire Classroom

Confession #96

On Reading: From Engaged to Endangered?

Living in the Mold Culture of Violence

Thy Road, Thy Raft, They Comfort Me

MLK Day & The School Sanitation Zone

Used to Guzzle Water