The Aesthetic Cesspool of America
A young student stands in the front of my classroom ready to perform. The students have just turned in their journals which contain four types […]
Articles by Dana R Casey
Somewhere between Sodom/Gomorrah and Saudi Arabia
The world is becoming more polarized every day. A rational middle ground between extremes appears to be crumbling under our feet until one is left […]
Coming Out of the Conservative Closet
Our country has gone through times before where fathers stop speaking to sons, brothers to brothers, neighbors to neighbors. This happened during the Revolutionary War, […]
IT IS TIME TO HEAR FROM THE TEACHERS!
This Wednesday morning, I am sitting in a classroom acting as a co-proctor for a retest of the English assessment, one of a battery of tests […]
A Monstrous Story for a Monstrous Curriculum: The Ugly Heart of Common Core
I am a high school English teacher. I became a teacher because I believe that literacy, which goes beyond just reading the words on the […]
Clowns vs. Chicks
Tuffy Gessling, the Obama-mask-wearing rodeo clown has been making national news since last weekend for taunting the bulls to run him down. The outrage over […]
Seize the Narrative!
Liberals and the political pundits LOVE the term “the narrative”, the story. Communication theorist Walter Fisher believes that “humans are essentially storytellers” and that “Our […]