Given the title of this post, I write knowing I risk being accused of insulting my colleagues and yet nothing is further from the truth. If anything, this post serves to celebrate the ways we learned to work in […]

One of the nice things about Saturdays, at least for me, is that I don’t set an alarm in the mornings. I get up when my body is done sleeping and this is always early enough. I make a cup of coffee, turn on the c […]

Happy Pi Day!

The mathematical constant Pi represents the relationship between a circle’s circumference and its diameter. Pi is approximated as 3.14 though in actuality the digits after the decimal go on a […]

In an attempt to keep to my workout routine, I have printed out a blank calendar for the current month and charged my 6 year old daughter with putting a sticker on each day I exercise. She is wonderful when it […]

One of the things that sheltering in place has made me very aware of is how much food goes to waste. I am now incredibly aware of the expiration date on every item we own and the goal is to go through all the […]

As of last check there were over 41,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York City. New York is in a state of “pause.” Many businesses are closed and the schools have moved to distance learning as my family and […]

Lidia Gonzalez wrote a new blog post: Response to Rose Chapter 8 in light of Gottschalk & Hjortshoj Chapter 2 %s

Well, that post title is a bit long and perhaps not too useful.  Let me clarify: the Rose chapter sets us a writing assignment about culture shock.  Students read a text that discusses stages that immigrants go through upon coming to the United States.  The text classifies the immigrants experiences into several phases and discusses […]

Lidia Gonzalez wrote a new blog post: Response to Gottschalk & Hjortshoj (Chapter 1) %s

The authors throughout chapter 1 highlight what they see as a false dichotomy between teaching writing and teaching the content of a specific discipline.  If we start with a course and “add on” a writing component we’re playing into this dichotomy which separates teaching content from the writing itself.  As an educator if we already […]

Lidia Gonzalez wrote a new blog post: Response to Rose Chapter 14 %s

Rose, M. (2006). An Open Language: Selected Writing on Literacy, Learning, and Opportunity. Boston: Bedford/St Martin’s.
Response to Rose Chapter 14
The Rose chapter, to me, was quite interesting because of the arguments put forth by the author and the implications of these arguments upon teaching and learning.  What struck me most is how similar some of […]