Answering the Call: How Military Veterans Could Help Address Teacher Shortages
What’s standing in the way of transitioning service members becoming teachers, and are they even a good fit for the classroom?
A Reminder on School Traffic Rules
These traffic safety tips can help keep both you and your students safe this school year.
Pandemic Learning Loss: Where Are We Now?
Educators, districts, and the government at the state and federal level have all researched and tried multiple ways to return students educational levels back to before the pandemic. Here is a look at how those strategies have played out since schools opened back up.
Alafair Hammett Media Award: Recognizing Excellence in Education Reporting
ATPE would like to congratulate Texas Monthly senior editor Forrest Wilder for winning the 2024 Alafair Hammett Media Award.
Shifting Focus: Addressing the Full Spectrum of Public Education Challenges
While the privatizers and voucher pushers continue to do their best to manufacture division, outside the culture war trenches, there are plenty of non-voucher or voucher-linked issues that public educators legitimately need lawmakers to focus on.
Texas Educators and the 2024 Election
Election season 2024 is in full swing. How should educators approach conversations on this topic and what are your First Amendment rights?
The Teacher Reuse Aims to Alleviate Out-of-Pocket Costs for Texas Educators
This San Marcos-based nonprofit is on a mission to save teachers as much as possible on classroom supplies while encouraging recycling and reuse.
Filling Vacancies: Teacher Recruitment and Retention
As the teacher preparation landscape in Texas remains akin to the Wild West, public schools are looking for innovative and effective ways to recruit and retain quality teachers and make shortages an issue of the past.
Meet Generation Alpha: Who Are They, and How Do We Educate Them?
You have heard of the baby boomer generation and the millennials, but how much do you know about Generation Alpha? The newest generation may not have left its mark on society yet, but it's already having a major impact on education.
