Musings from the Middle: A Teacher's Memoir

Musings from the Middle is a teacher's memoir about the middle schoolyears of fears, tears, peers, and cheers. It shows a diversity of life experiences, viewpoints, and backgrounds and reveals eye-opening anecdotes and escapadesof middle school teens. It is timely because it is insightful about the issues today's>Whether walking on eggshells or walking on sunshine, today's teens put us intheir shoes and help us see the world from their perspective. In Musings fromthe Middle, we feel their angst and their ecstasy as we peer into some poignantmoments of their lives. People outside education will learn what really goes onin our middle schools. Today's teens carry a much heavier load than teens fromyears gone by. We are turning our adolescents away from learning by bombardingthem with rote learning and testing that stresses them to the limit. Bullying is on>Musings from the Middle shows teens a path to becoming whole humanbeings before heading to high school. They proudly celebrate their uniquenessand grasp the importance of humanity as a whole. They understand the worldis in their hands and how to work to make it a better place through learningand responsibility.