Notice how my last blog post was at the start of the school year, and this blog post is coming months and months later? Yeah…that was not how it was supposed to happen! 2020 was a year of big plans for me: figure out my career, start my blog, post a ton of awesome resources, […]
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I have been fortunate enough to have some amazing mentors in education over the years. The type of mentors who seem like Yoda and Dumbledore and Gandalf…times 10, because they have spent their lives somehow leading teenagers of every stripe effectively through seemingly everything (thanks 2020). Probably some of the best advice I ever got […]
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I know we hear that our students are increasingly turning to digital outlets and have little-to-no attention span. However, I think no amount of GIFs in our Crucible presentation are going to help our students think Arthur Miller is cool. Instead, I think what our students (all students) really want (and need) are high and […]
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If you couldn’t tell, I find creating assessments over cool material tremendously enjoyable. Any time I hear a good podcast or radio story, read an interesting article, or pick up a good book, my mind often jumps to finding sections that I could create multiple choice assessments about for my class. Granted, this is a […]
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I am not proud to admit this, particularly considering I have spent over 10 years working with English Language Learners, but two questions I too rarely considered were: Who are my students seeing in the materials we work with in my classroom? And… How are the people they see portrayed? It wasn’t that I wasn’t […]
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