Welcome to FacultyShack ,

For the past seven years FacultyShack has served as an alternative to traditional scholarly education journals. Our online journal publication provides teachers with a thoughtful and often humorous look at the realities teachers face.  The journal also serves as a clearinghouse for new approaches to classroom challenges.  Finally, FacultyShack provides a forum for ongoing discussion of complex educational questions.

Originally, the FacultyShack community consisted of a small group of teachers from all around the country who wrote the articles.  Over time FacultyShack the journal have grown to include articles by over sixty writers from all around the world, many of whom have become regulars on our staff. Our readership has grown and we have won awards and press accolades.

We survive thanks to the articles submitted by friends and strangers. We look for pieces in all different formats and topics ranging from funny to serious about the world inside school or teachers’ lives outside of school. There is no length limit (that is the beauty of cyber-publishing), but long pieces should have a reason to be long. If you have an article idea that you would like to share, please submit it to us. We will try to get back to you as soon as possible. If we decide to publish your work, first time authors get a free and very sharp-looking FacultyShack T-shirt. Now what other academic journal does that?

Reading the articles is only the beginning, though. All pieces have calls for responses. We take the most thoughtful responses and post them following the articles to which they are responding.

If you are student who thinks it would be funny to write, "Hey, Ms. Wigglesworth is it 4:20?" or simply "Mr. Mindich sucks" on every page, you will be out of luck. Similarly, if your ideas make no sense, have been represented already or show a fixation with bringing either angels or wicca/Satan into school curriculum, they will probably be taken down.

But, please don't let that warning get in your way. Go ahead, and write us.