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Teaching 25 small children English for seven hours a day in a hot classroom where tears and didn’t-quite-make-it-to-the-bathroom moments

My Saturdays fall into two categories now that I’m a kindergarten teacher: either I do a lot or I

It has been occurring to me recently, as I’m sure it has occurred to many of you, that time

“How long before a 9-year-old suffocates under a pile of children?” That's my first thought as my students tackle

Monday night was Cofradia’s Desfile de Antorchas. For people that don’t speak Spanish and don’t want to put that

SJBS, My Home Every time I visit San Jeronimo Bilingual School (SJBS—the first BECA school in Honduras), everything comes

After kicking off the year with a mysterious 24-hour fever, I’ve got four days of first grade under my

It’s 6:45 am on a balmy Honduran morning. You know those days; when you wake up and can taste

Just when they thought they had graduated, BECA’s 2014-2015 volunteer teachers find themselves back in their old University lives.

Earlier this month, President Obama made frontpage news when he called the massive influx of Central American child migrants