Craig Talks Teaching

I'm Craig McKinney, a Professional Learning Coordinator with a teaching background in English, humanities, and GT. I love teaching students and teachers. For years, I've been sending out a weekly e-mail with tips for educators. To contact me for staff development or with questions, e-mail at craigjmckinney@gmail.com. Follow me on Twitter @craigjmckinney.

Monday, August 10, 2020

Make Friends With The Chat

Teaching live online is scary, but it looks like a necessity for the immediate future. Sure, there are teachers who are wonderfully comforta...

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Get Out of the Car (and meet some new people this summer)

On October 10, 2015, an incident occurred at the University of Missouri homecoming parade that made national news but somehow escaped my ...

Friday, May 10, 2019

Cause for Celebration

We’ve reached the point where you can count the days remaining in the school year on the average person’s fingers. Exhaustion, fatigue, an...

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

How Did We Get Here?

I am not watching Game of Thrones . I tried my best to get into the show over Winter Break over a year ago, but I just couldn’t wrap m...

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Relentless Reflection: Why? Why Else? and So What?

Reflection is difficult because it forces us to hold a mirror up to ourselves and see what we really look like without filters and tricky ...

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

I Put on Clothes for This?

Here I go again, sounding like an old person. . . Back in the days before the Internet, curious scholars who wanted to learn from a wi...

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Sketchy Teaching

Are sketchy things going on in your classroom? I’m talking about paper-and-pen-or-pencil or even stylus-and-tablet kind of sketching. ...

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