Andrew Boryga

2 weeks ago | borywrites.substack.com | Andrew Boryga

We were trying to start the bedtime routine recently—bath, pajamas, teeth, books, etc. But it was late in the evening, my kids were tired, and they weren’t having it—especially my four year-old son. There were tears, lots of groans, and flailing limbs at the dining table. We proposed what we thought was a brilliant, if not psychologically exploitative idea: “Let’s race to the bathroom.”Like a lightbulb had gone off between his eyes, my son shot up and sped off laughing.

1 month ago | edutopia.org | Andrew Boryga

On a crisp fall morning last year, a group of Damaris Borden’s freshmen hiked a thin trail along the edge of a mossy pond in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, chatting amiably as they threaded through rocks, fallen leaves, and outgrowths of native oak and maple trees. Every so often, the group paused to take in natural features that most teenagers might overlook, like a massive beaver dam stretched across a bend in the pond.

1 month ago | edutopia.org | Andrew Boryga

To an outside observer, faculty member Christopher Correia and a wiry 10th grader named Jarell might look like two friends taking a casual stroll on The Greene School campus. But the walk-and-talk is in fact a weekly check-in and an opportunity for Correia to celebrate Jarell’s progress meeting behavioral goals.

2 months ago | borywrites.substack.com | Andrew Boryga

The line caught me off guard at first. Then I laughed. Then I got tight. While Andrew Boryga (Victim) and Tony Tulathimutte are free to skewer identity pieties, white male millennials are still unable to speak directly to their own condition. This comes from a viral Compact piece by Jacob Savage that was published last month, which argues that white American millennial men are “vanishing” from literary fiction.

Mar 7, 2025 | edutopia.org | Andrew Boryga

It’s a natural impulse: a sea of raised hands during a classroom discussion must mean students are getting it—they’re engaged with the material and prepared to ask smart questions. And yet, some students rarely raise their hand, and others shudder at the thought of sharing their thinking in public, fearful that they’ll sound uninformed or lack the language skills to express themselves clearly. When raised hands becomes the objective, says Philadelphia high school English teacher Matthew R.