Most of the writing I’ve done about teaching over the past 18 years has fallen into two categories. The first category is funny stories from my first year of teaching — a year that was much more tragic than funny, but maybe the stories make it seem like it was the other way. The other…

During my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years of teaching, I wrote a monthly column for the TFA two-step, which was the Houston regional newsletter. Here’s one from 1995 that was a bit different. Rather than a bunch of observations, this one took the form of a fictional diary based on one of those books written…

Long before there was the cleverly titled ‘Gary Rubinstein’s TFA Blog’ (It’s all about branding), back before the internet even, there was ‘The TFA Two-Step’, Houston’s regional newsletter back when I was a corps member from 1991 to 1995. 1991 was my first year, so I wasn’t writing anything back then but discipline referral cards.…