Classroom – Teaching with Equity

Mentor Texts, Modeling, and Possibility

I am currently working on a unit with my eleventh-grade students that is part novel study and part creative writing. For context, I just started teaching this class this semester to replace a teacher who went on a leave of absence. The students have spent the better part of the last few months preparing forContinue reading “Mentor Texts, Modeling, and Possibility”

Reflections from the Classroom

New Beginnings After two decades in administration, I am back in the classroom as a full-time teacher. Those 20 years weren’t entirely spent in administration. In my first administrative position I served as a department chairperson with a teaching load of two classes, and then there was a school year I spent as an elementaryContinue reading “Reflections from the Classroom”