by Steve Chisnell | 14 February 2016 | ChizBlog, Service
Ten years ago, my Interact (youth Rotary) students told me that they wanted to do more than simply stage charity drives—they wanted to go out and help people directly. But as a high school English teacher, I hardly knew where to begin. On top of simply finding the... 
by Steve Chisnell | 19 January 2016 | ChizBlog, Culture Criticism, Global Issues, Travel
Hours after arriving in the United States and I am wrestling with questions that have dominated my weekend and been drawn more acute by it. They are questions about not merely the gulfs of politics and ideology, but those of language. And not just about differing... 
by Steve Chisnell | 15 January 2016 | Culture Criticism, Global Issues, Travel
It’s been some years since I took a “Reality Tour” to Cuba. And while I have many memories of that trip, there are some parts of Cuba I worried about then, cracks in the communist walls against capitalist media and marketing that I feared might undermine some of the... 
by Steve Chisnell | 19 February 2015 | ChizBlog, Education
Second in a series to The Oakland Press about education reforms and the classroom experience. One of the reasons I have loved being a teacher for so long is the marvelous complexity and dynamic change in my day to day activities. Nothing when done well is... 
by Steve Chisnell | 6 February 2015 | ChizBlog, Education
The following op-ed was written as the first of a series for The Oakland Press, part of my work as an EdVoice Fellow. Is it possible for a teacher of nearly 30 years to change his thinking about what he teaches? When I was going to school in the 1970s, an era... 
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School. 
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