Digging up The Dead Poets Society

Unpacking Mr. Keating’s teaching legacy

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It’s said that your first five years in the classroom is where you learn to be a teacher. In those early years, I mucked my way through the lesson plans, and at the end of the day, beat myself up for my mistakes: rushing a lesson; forgetting an important idea; mixing up the order of the lesson; misspelling a word. I was irrational. I was…