WEB BASED ARTICLES AND COMMENTARIES:


In Defense of Teachers, Michigan Radio, March 10, 2011

Annual Evaluations Can Be Frustrating For Teachers, South Lyon Herald, August 27, 2014

Kindred: Find Solutions, Not Scapegoats, To Problems, South Lyon Herald, February 5, 2015

Teachers Keep Busy As Part of South Lyon Community, South Lyon Herald, June 30, 2015

We Already Know What it Takes to Train Great Teachers, Michigan Radio, March 30, 2015

High School Teacher: Republican Attacks on Public Education are Bearing Rotten Fruit, Michigan Radio, June 8, 2017

Kindred: Proposed Social Studies Standards are Terrible, Michigan Radio,  June 15, 2018

I'll Start My 28th Year Teaching in a Few Weeks, But Will I Survive It?, Michigan Radio, August 10, 2020

Social Studies Teachers Struggle to Explain President Trump, Michigan Radio, January 14, 2021

Keith Kindred: Effort to Ban CRT in Public Schools is Misguided, Michigan Radio, November 1, 2021

Teachers Need Those Who Support Them to Start Showing It, Michigan Radio, March 19, 2022

Kindred: ChatGPT not likely to fool or replace teachers just yet, Michigan Radio, March 3, 2023


NARRATIVE NONFICTION


"The Last Shot" - Have you ever come up short in the big moment and it haunts you still?


"Every Man is an Addict" - We all have addictions ...the key is to avoid the really harmful ones.


"Waiting for Thoreau" - What is your purpose? It depends where you are in life.


MASTERS THESIS


The story of how the Chinese were treated when they first came in large numbers to the United States in the 19th century is, sadly, filled with racism and contempt - despite their contributions in helping to build the first transcontinental railroad, for example.  Part of that larger process was how they were portrayed in the mainstream press, but also in some of the leading Protestant missionary periodicals of the day.  For history geeks like me, I offer the thesis I wrote for my masters degree in history, just in case you might want to know more.


"Images of the Chinese as Presented in American Protestant Missionary Periodicals, 1905-1915"