April Coker, Author

Category: teaching

  • For My Girl Miranda

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have heard about Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton’s divorce after only four years of marriage.  As one of Miranda’s former high school teachers and one of the two teachers she chose for the Teachers Count poster campaign and invited to the sold-out Nashville Rising flood relief concert…

  • TEENS: 10 Things Your Teacher Wants You to Know

    As a high school teacher, I received much unsolicited advice and many opinions from my students, ranging from how easy my job must be to how unfair I was.  Here are some things I tried to get them to understand.  Maybe putting it out in blog world will help get the message across. . .…

  • 10 Things Your Child’s Principal Wants You to Know

    Much attention is given to the first day of school from the child’s or parent’s point of view, but have you ever stopped to think about what the principal might be thinking when it’s time for school to start?  I had the opportunity to be a campus director in my career and here are some…

  • 10 Things Your Child’s High School Teacher Wants You to Know

      Kids are back in school, and so are teachers and administrators.  As a retired teacher with 30 years of teaching under my belt, I thought I would share a few things.  Today I am talking to parents of high schoolers.     1.  I may have up to 180 students to keep up with.…

  • Teacher Tuesday: Noisy or Quiet?

    If you as someone not in the field of education walked past a classroom that seemed noisy and chaotic, would you think learning was taking place?  Or would you prefer to see students sitting quietly in rows of desks listening to the teacher presenting the lesson?  It’s a question I asked myself often during my…