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Facing Teaching & Myself

Facing Teaching & Myself

Parents & Defensiveness

Have I mentioned that I dislike conflict? A parent had emailed a few weeks ago declaring that the homework was too confusing for both her…

Oct 22, 2017

Oct 22, 2017

Facing Teaching & Myself

#TakeaKnee with Predominately White 7th Graders

Flocabulary, Race, and Current Events

Oct 7, 2017

#TakeaKnee with Predominately White 7th Graders

Oct 7, 2017

Facing Teaching & Myself

Parents & Back to School Night

This is how I feel on back to school night: putting on a show, several times in one night. Put on the costume, put on the show-time face…

Oct 6, 2017

Parents & Back to School Night

Oct 6, 2017

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9/11 with 7th Graders

Some facts:

Oct 6, 2017

Oct 6, 2017

Facing Teaching & Myself

Advice from the End of the Year

I looked back at a post I titled “End of the Year”: it had 45 words and no complete sentences — only fragments with some misspelled…

Sep 9, 2017

Advice from the End of the Year

Sep 9, 2017

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8th Graders Make Connections between 1930s Germany and Today

(note: I copied these as I graded them around June 9, 2017 — and then never published because I knew there would be more as I got more…

Sep 9, 2017

8th Graders Make Connections between 1930s Germany and Today

Sep 9, 2017

Facing Teaching & Myself

Universe of Obligation

When Zombies attack…

Sep 9, 2017

Universe of Obligation

Sep 9, 2017

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Essential

“I teach history and literature — since when is this not essential?”

May 31, 2017

Essential

May 31, 2017

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Conflict

Facing students one-on-one

May 26, 2017

May 26, 2017

Facing Teaching & Myself

Those Who Don’t

For homework tonight, my students are responding to this excerpt from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros:

May 4, 2017

Those Who Don’t

May 4, 2017

Facing Teaching & Myself

Facing Teaching & Myself

Middle school Social Studies Teacher. Recovering perfectionist. Birder. Baker. Runner. Lover of puns.

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