Teachers. Everywhere.

I've spent the last couple of days at the TIES Conference in Minneapolis. This was an international conference with teachers from all over the United States and Canada.  It was awesome! But it was also obvious that there was a culture of teachers, everywhere.  The clothing, the bags, the acronyms: all these things gave away to an obvious culture. While walking through the vendors, they were able to not only identify us as teachers, but they were also able to often identify the level and subject matters we taught just by looking at us. I saw this as not only identifying a culture, but maybe a little bit of stereotyping, too.