During the summer, I have time to do things that I sometimes don’t get to do during the school year…such as watch tv. So I watched season 4 of Queer Eye recently (shut up, it’s fun). In the first episode, the makeover subject was a teacher that Jonathan had when he was in high school. …
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Recommendations for students: On the Come Up
I recently finished reading On the Come Up by Angie Thomas. Her story about Bri, a 16 year old who is on the cusp of breaking into the rapping world was quite something. This story wasn’t only about rapping though, and that is the beauty of it. The story is multi-layered with commentary about racism, …
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Making Over an English Curriculum
The most basic philosophy of literacy education is that kids will read what they’re interested in. When they find people who are like them represented in a story, they are often intrigued because maybe they feel like there are no stories about them so why should they read another story about someone they can’t relate …
Collaboration
This week I attended a Professional Development (PD) workshop on co-teaching. Contrary to popular belief, teachers who don’t work in the summer sometimes spend their time trying to improve their practice for the upcoming year. So with this in mind, I attended this workshop. Now…I will have to say I was disappointed. While the presenters …
Independence
It’s fitting that we’ve been talking about our country’s independence the past few days as it was July 4, Independence Day. The idea of independence can be at different levels though, and I have been thinking about my students’ independence. Teens are definitely exploring their individualism as they look to gain independence from their parents …
A New Beginning
The more things change, the more they stay the same. A cliche maybe, but cliches definitely have truth embedded in them. After an extended hiatus from blogging in which I had a difficult pregnancy and became a twin mom, I feel compelled to re-visit my musings about literature, education and life in the New York …
Welcome to My New Education Blog
“Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything…” – Sam Seaborn, TWW Welcome to my musings about literacy, education and motherhood.
Meditations on Literature and Literacy...Continued 