Being More than a Teacher
This year, the national Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action is February 6th – 10th. This is a week where educators, students, their families and overall allies will come together and discuss action in understanding the reality of the experiences of Black people in America. Why Black Lives Matter at School Week Regardless […]
Although your students mostly focus on academics in the classroom there are many beneficial life skills that you can weave into lesson plans and in your classroom. These are skills that all students should have that will help them well into adulthood. These important life skills are also great when thinking about adding rigor to […]
We all have boundaries. Maybe you don’t feel like you do. You’re overwhelmed, tired, burned out, and stress because now more than ever, it feels like you have been run over. Teachers are naturally helpers, caregivers, and go above and beyond. However, somewhere around the umpteenth time of doing more than your job description you […]
This year I had the opportunity to be apart of my school’s equity team and lead with some equity strategies. We were starting from scratch. Building something that we were compassionate about and wanted our colleagues to realize the importance of. To begin with, it was slow going. Start the year full only and the […]
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is not just a buzz word in the K-12 environment. In the special education field it’s been apart of the curriculum (or at least should have) for quite sometimes. Social and emotional learning is needed in schools to promote student success in an the educational setting in a variety of […]
Hybrid learning is new to many teachers but it’s something that is now part of normal education. After a year of at-home distance learning, many districts are starting to easy back into the in-classroom traditional setting. With a little over a week of hybrid teaching experience, I think I have a routine that works. Here’s […]