by Trevor Barton | Dec 23, 2019 | Opinion
A meaningful moment happened at lunch recently. They often do in elementary school cafeterias. We elementary school teachers eat lunch with our students. As we sit and eat our meat and three vegetables with them, we become listeners instead of talkers, we become...
by Trevor Barton | Nov 20, 2019 | Opinion
I noticed one of my students was sitting at her table with her head in her arms, as still as the petals of a daisy on a midsummer afternoon. This was a few weeks ago as we were moving from our morning work to our writing workshop, and as the students were milling...
by Trevor Barton | Sep 19, 2019 | Opinion
Over half of the students I teach at my Title I elementary school in west Greenville, South Carolina, are from Mexico, Central America and South America. I love teaching them. I love them. The political winds of the last three years have blown against them. They are...
by Trevor Barton | Sep 5, 2019 | Opinion
Today, I got down to the eye level of my fourth-grade students. I mean this both literally and figuratively. The older I get, the tougher it is to literally lean down to hear the words they are saying, to read the sentences they are writing and to see the work they...
by Trevor Barton | Mar 27, 2019 | Opinion
Dear Public Schools, I love you. I love you for who you are. Malala Yousafzai said, “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” You are a place where people who look different and think different and act different and believe different can come...
