In the words of my mentor during student teaching: care for these kids first, then start teaching. This remote learning experience has reaffirmed that. Every phone call I make home it is just to check on the […]
Unfortunately, the everyday banter and interaction is what I miss the most in school…I have found in my career that giving students a moment to talk about something totally unrelated to the classroom activity w […]
One of my most successful moments as a a teacher last year was when our focus for two weeks before holiday break we focused on creating editorials dealing with gender inequality. Students had access to computers, […]
At the end of last school year, I said I was going to launch myself into google classroom next year and make it a part of my everyday use….Then I signed up for some grad courses and that plan quickly turned into a […]
Every time I have experimented with visual aids to introduce a reading skill—it starts really successfully and falls flat. For example, my favorite book to teach, Night—has been accompanied with a lesson from the […]
Using Student voices as mentor texts is an approach I have been experimenting with this year. So much research suggests that in order for students to engage with texts requires culturally accessible texts (Hooper […]
Since topics in social justice with our students of color can lead to uncomfortable positions in the classroom that we hope don’t derail or offend anybody. I often find myself asking the question “is this too far […]
Handsfield and Valente (2016) gave me great insight into creating narrative writing assignments during Night. As Valente describes and writes “this unit had to be about more than writing; it had to be about b […]
Narrative writing I find the next frontier I want to conquer in my classroom. The best way I would describe the narrative writing techniques I implore to be artificial thus far. “Create a diary journal entry f […]
De Los Rios et. al (2019) writes that “Ethnic studies approaches to ELA are not simply about the inclusion of literature by writers of color or the celebration that people of color also have/had ‘heroes’ and ‘grea […]
