J. Jenkins' Teaching Thoughts

This Property is Condemned: Three Ways To Limit Students' Potential by Jill Jenkins      In the one-act play, "This Prope...

By Jill Jenkins           The Daily Beast reports over 300 hate crimes since the election of Donald J. Trump and by far the most t...

Why Is Bullying So Difficult To Stop      Despite the signs hanging in each classroom declaring it a "Bully Free Zone," bull...

Respect Is Expected Especially From Teachers by Jill Jenkins      Recently I observed a mother bellowing demands and insults at he...

An Ounce of Prevention by Jill Jenkins As teachers prepare their classrooms for the upcoming school year: cleaning and arranging d...

Today, Free-Range Parenting has become popular among young parents.  Instead of establishing boundaries for children, parents allow childre...

Three Methods to Motivate the Unmotivated By Jill Jenkins           Most people who enter the ranks of educators have been academic...

Pride: Measure Twice and Cut Once  By Jill Jenkins When my father was a child, he and his brother lived with their mother in his gr...

The Final Hours The end of the school year is filled with students driving motorcycles down hallways, a barrage of water ba...

Stay Out of The Faculty Room: A Cesspool of Virulent Negativity By Jill Jenkins             Poisonous people are lurking in the sta...