Author Dawn Casey-Rowe

"Miss, they're saying we won't have school tomorrow." "Why?" I asked. A few flakes fluttered to the ground. "Because it's so cold." It's New England. Something inside me snapped. I don't mind a snow...

“Have you researched colleges?” I ask my class. They say they have but they haven’t really. Not one of them knows the deadlines for the institutions in question. They know which sweatshirt looks cool....

“In my day, we didn’t have video games.” Students gasp. “Well, I had Pong. Pong is the only video game I owned until I got my first iPhone.” Students gasp again. “That’s why I loved...

I hate grades. I'd abolish them. They don’t represent student abilities or work. I’d assign students a paragraph, a feedback session, or a mentoring relationship with benchmarks and goals--something that...

A brief introductory tangent… a trip down memory lane... If you’re an aspiring educational leader, one thing you need to know is first year teachers are cheap. You can get about twenty new teachers for...

“I don’t have any clothes, Miss. I’m just going to drop out.” I didn’t want him to drop out or come to school naked--I wasn’t sure which was more probable but neither seemed a good outcome. I...