education – Teaching with Equity

Can We Assign a Love of Reading?

As the weather starts to warm and summer break approaches, you can bet there are conversations happening across elementary and secondary ELA departments about summer reading. Should we select one book that everyone will read? Should we provide students with a list of books to choose from? How will we curate the list? By gradeContinue reading “Can We Assign a Love of Reading?”

Filtering Through The Noise

So many have said that 2025 is off to a crazy start. And they are not wrong. New leadership in the White House, wildfires in California, and airplanes literally falling out the sky. It sounds like the beginning of a disaster movie, or reminds me of the YA book The Giver when they explained whyContinue reading “Filtering Through The Noise”

Thinking about the Pandemic

Four Years Later Do you still feel like the pandemic was a blackhole we fell into where time and space seemed to get lost? I feel like it’s easy to delineate before the pandemic, but still wonder when exactly we moved to “post pandemic?” At this time four years ago we had no idea howContinue reading “Thinking about the Pandemic”