Heading Back to School!
…education: Community-building: As teachers, we usually go into the first weeks of school assuming full responsibility for building the learning space. But what happens if we put some of that…
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How Blank Walls Built Community in 7th Grade
…build community through creating a shared space in which to showcase and celebrate students. So I decided this year would be the year I learned to embrace blank walls, and…
Learning to Cut and Paste
…often messy aftermath of store aisles strewn with notebooks, fuzzy pencil cases, and stacks of construction paper. As a university English teacher, I was never used to these sales being…
The Book Bento: A Visual Literary Analysis Assignment
…classes this year. They require less grading than an essay. I got through a stack of 15 today in 20 minutes, when grading their on-demand essays usually takes over an…
Fire, Flight, and Fight
…In Missouri, their family has the support of their communities at school, at church, and in loving circles of friends. They will still need to rebuild careers and support systems…
Excavating and Honoring our Trauma: The Work of Eugenia Leigh and Joan Kwon Glass
…that, “Writing stories from the ‘I’ position lays a path to building a classroom community grounded in testimony and critical witness” (pg 59). Immediately, when I think of these issues…
Student-Generated Questions, Part 1: Making Space for Student Voices, Perspectives, and Identities
…of Basra: A True Story from Iraq (2005), to my third-grade students as a way to build excitement for the year of incredible reading we were about to embark on….
Creating Inclusive Classroom Libraries with Different Types of Agents
…varied possibilities that young readers can embody: overcoming challenges to achieve their goals; combating inequalities; building meaningful relationships with others; disrupting identity norms; caring for themselves; and being entangled with…
A Turning Point for Pennsylvania’s Book Bans
…who could have read them. Book bans inhibit free speech, and most importantly, our ability to connect with others and build strong communities. Books commonly banned, such as Gender Queer:…
Making Metacognition Part of Student Writing
…of conversational feedback, allowing students to feel more agency over their own writing, and the power of building rapport that comes with conferences. In my own classroom, I’ve been on…
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