This week we launch a new feature: The View from Your Classroom. Based on Andrew Sullivan’s wildly popular The View from Your Window, we’ll showcase views from classrooms around the country, like the one below from Brian Woodward, an English teacher at Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, Md. (He’s also ES Senior Policy Analyst Elena Silva’s husband).

Paint Branch High School, Burtonsville, MD

We hope you will share what you see—your “view”, your classroom reality—with our blog readers. As Sullivan noted when he launched his feature: “One of the strange things about having a blog…you don’t get to know who your fellow-readers are, where they live, what they do, what they see as they look out their window each morning.”

So, please help us tell your story about the diversity of schools and school environments across the country. We are counting on your creativity, so there are just a few initial guidelines:

Show us—and all of our readers—the world outside your classroom (or wherever it is that you help to educate). Don’t pretty it up; just show it as it is. The best window views are those depicting what you see everyday when you look outside. The window frame should be visible. And please protect the privacy of your students—do not send pictures that show individually identifiable children.

Send your photos to us here. Please title the e-mail “The View From Your Classroom” and tell us the school name, city, state, and grade level or type of classroom. You can also upload your photos to our Flickr pool, Education Sector’s View From Your Classroom. The larger the file size, the better. Please note that by sending your photos you grant the Quick and the Ed full rights to publish and edit your pictures as we see fit.

Again, kudos to Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish blog for the original View from Your Window feature.