I am simply going to present something already presented (I am, at my core, a teacher and will not be accused of plagiarizing) by Dr. Morna McDermott that I found on a website called “Teaching and Learning in Hostile Times” which was posted, as I found it, by Tim Slekar. Full credit due to them. [...]
Recently, I had a conversation with a stranger. I mostly recognize him as someone in my community, but I have no intimate details of his life. We chatted it up for a few minutes and then he mentioned having just read “The Help” and how much he enjoyed it. I must have made a face [...]
There are times when my teachers ask me to do certain things with their classes and I feel very lucky to be able to have the opportunity to do it. For instance, last year when one of my language arts teachers wanted to work with our literacy coach on how to grade extended responses she [...]
I’m over at Babble today writing about 10 Good Parenting Things I Did. If it sounds like bragging, it probably is. You should go read it and comment. Here’s a snippet of one of them: 2. My children have gay friends in their lives and I am unabashedly proud of them for not allowing any [...]
This is an e-mail I found in my inbox recently. I’m still trying to wrap my head around this, and I am wondering what you think about it. I’m a (white) teacher in a small district in Portland, Oregon. Each year, our entire district staff gathers together for an opening address from the superintendent. Since [...]
In May I received a letter at work from a former student of mine from when I worked at a high school previous to my current job. Kayse was a freshman when I started working with her and I spent three years total doing that. During her senior year I left to work at a [...]
I have an entire redesign of this site coming soon and the launch date is past due because I was told to “keep low traffic on your blog” and then I went and wrote about racism. So, the launch is postponed for now because I have to finish this series (?) while I have the [...]
Teaching is expensive and teachers don’t make a lot of money. Also, water is wet. Have you heard? No, really. I have better news than that. I have been subscribing to Brad’s Deals for a little while and have been contacted by them about doing a giveaway (which, is happening a lot lately so look [...]
I’m not going to put anyone personally on blast and I’m sparingly linking in this post because the larger context is more important than pointing fingers and forcing one person or a community to answer for what I’m feeling passionate about right now. However, I am using some of the wording I’ve seen written about [...]
Look at some of you people! You’ve written two or three follow up posts to BlogHer already and here it is Thursday and I’ve been hounded by several close friends to write a post already! I’ll be honest. When I was contacted about possibly interviewing Glee’s Jane Lynch while I was out in San Diego [...]
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