"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." – Maya Angelou
Some things you should know right away about me: I actually really love Shakespeare. Like, a lot. I have a sonnet memorized (which was read at my wedding), I've been in the room he was born in, seen 5 productions in England and many more in the U.S... yeah, I enjoy Shakespeare. I'm trying to... Continue Reading →
A former student brought this giant Hershey's kiss (which serves 5 by the way) to me this morning. It was out of the blue, and I was so surprised. I interact with this particular student quite often- always at Target, where he works and where I spend large amounts of my paycheck. He came by... Continue Reading →
Student Council invited teachers and students to decorate classroom doors for Winter Spirit Week. I found four interested students (two mostly helped, the other two just ran errands to and from the color printer), and.... we won a prize for Most Informative Door! The theme of Winter Spirit Week was Olympics, so we chose to... Continue Reading →
For some additional graduate level credits and CEUS this year, I am taking a class called SEED offered through my district. We meet once a month, talk about equity and education topics, and rotate each month who teaches. My group was up this month, and our goal, which I think we achieved, was to offer... Continue Reading →
My co-worker and I received awesome feedback from our students about their experience reading The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. So we wanted to let students browse other relevant, engaging, and popular young adult books from the last couple years. I did this in the form of a book tasting: students got menus, sampled a variety of... Continue Reading →
Be careful what you ask for, right? I required my 10th graders to give me feedback on their experience with me as their teacher first semester, and initially, my brain only read the negatives. So, I decided to write down some of the feedback that hurt and some that helps. Hurts: A native student who... Continue Reading →
One of my mantras is "I can't give what I don't have." Some of my colleagues and I were feeling a bit depressed and overwhelmed this January, and we could see that it was a bit viral in our building. A lot of us are trying to be helpful and giving when we're running on... Continue Reading →
What goes unsaid is just as important as what is said. This is something I am leaning into in my life and my classroom. I'm in a class of teachers, mostly from my district, called SEED that meets one Thursday evening each month. For our last session, we read excerpts from the book Everyday Anti-Racism -... Continue Reading →
The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone: what Tupac Shakur called THUG LIFE. Angie Thomas does a brilliant job intertwining the real-world issues of racism, police brutality, gang violence, poverty, and privilege in her novel for young adults. The book is no joke- more than 400 pages of a narrative that I've seen on... Continue Reading →
It's August which means teachers and students are soaking in the last long days of summer sunshine and preparing for what we know is around the corner. I have actually been so excited for this upcoming school year, and I have spent much of the summer brainstorming, revising, planning, and working. Next year, I will... Continue Reading →
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