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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Summer Reset for Teachers: Post #1

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Summer Reset for Teachers I have been teaching in a public high school in a major U.S. City for nearly 20 years, and each year I long for th...
Friday, March 4, 2022

Playing hookey

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An article in the city paper this week stated that resignations are up 200% from last year, and 90% from the prior year. It seems as though ...
Monday, January 17, 2022

Diversifying the Curriculum

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When I first began teaching, 14 years ago, the texts to which we had access in middle school ELA were somewhat limited. Working at a school ...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

School Building: Nobody's here

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 The last few weeks the school just gets emptier and emptier. Teachers are out, administrators are dwindling, kids, for the most part are sh...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

Invisible Man Passage Analysis: Opening Paragraph of the Novel

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       I am working on my Youtube skills. This morning, recorded an example of a one page analysis from the opening paragraph of Ralph Ellis...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Teaching, Existential Crisis, and Independent Reading

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        I've been listening to Glennon Doyle's podcast, We Can Do Hard Things  lately. If you've not read her most recent book, ...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Invisible Man

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For about 2 years I have been actively creating and selling products on Teachers Pay Teachers. Using lessons and units I have taught over th...
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