The rink is smooth as glass and we are the only ones there. I station myself beside our youngest, who is struggling to keep herself upright, and begin coaching her to move forward.
After weeks of listening, I’m not sure we do.
It is my first year as an instructional coach and I have been in the unique position to set everything aside and to to see, feel, hear, listen to teachers…
“I know that in this class you have been talking a lot about decolonizing. And I know you have been thinking a lot about this over the course of your quadmester. And I want to leave you with a…
“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are…
In their book 180 Days of Teaching, Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle (2018) write that “what we understand and practice in writing profoundly influences what our students learn. We can only teach what we know well” (81). This blog is my attempt to re-engage with the writing process in…