After a decade as an education professor, Greg Michie decided to return to his teaching roots. Same As It Never Was chronicles Michie's efforts to navigate the new realities of public schooling while also trying to rediscover himself as a teacher.

Gregory Michie teaches 7th- and 8th-graders in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood. He is the author of Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students, Second Edition; See You When We Get There: Teaching for Change in Urban Schools; and We Don't Need Another Hero: Struggle, Hope, and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling