2019… We Follow by Sheryl Lain 26 Apr 201915 Sep 2019 I rode with Dad in our old Ford pickup, through a spring blizzard. Thick white snow blinded us. I was safe and warm inside Dad’s competence as he drove to…
2019… From Café to Class: Bringing Book Clubs Into Your Classroom by Hayley Vetsch 26 Apr 201927 Sep 2019 It’s easy to discuss books if you like to read. Hobby reading comes easily to most of us English teachers, but I’d wager that it is one of the hardest…
2019… The Sustainability of the Empathetic Teacher by Shaina Lane 26 Apr 201927 Sep 2019 At 6:30 on a snowy Monday morning, I click my key into the lock of the school office to start my day. There is never anyone there before me, which I…
2019… Opposites Attract: Binary Opposites in Alice Sebold’s Lucky by Tanya Stafsholt Miller 26 Apr 201927 Sep 2019 The cover of Alice Sebold’s memoir reads, “In the tunnel where I was raped, a girl had been murdered and dismembered. I was told this story by the police. In…
2019… Write Anything: How STEM Connects to the Writing Curriculum by Amber Beattie 26 Apr 201927 Sep 2019 I must begin with a confession: I am an English person. Truly, there is little that I love more in life than a new book or fresh sheet of stationery.…
2019… Owning Their Stories: Teaching Memoir at an Alternative High School by Amy Vizenor 26 Apr 201927 Sep 2019 On a sunny afternoon in May, I sat in the parking lot of Midwestern Alternative (pseudonym), a high school for “at-risk” students where I was interviewing for an English teaching…
2019… Educating with Little Tree: Reshaping The Education of Little Tree’s Cultural and Pedagogical Value in English Classrooms by Chris Drew 26 Apr 201927 Sep 2019 At a recent conference session on literary diversity in classrooms, I and other attendees were encouraged to pass around a selection of books, examine them, and discuss their possible classroom…
2019… Internalizing the Message by Kay J. Walter 26 Apr 201927 Sep 2019 I had a few extra minutes that day when I entered the classroom in which I was teaching composition to second-semester freshmen at my university. I teach at the University…
2019… The Same School Year: Narratives of Early- and Middle-Career Teachers in a U.S. Public School by Lisa M. Dembouski & Kari Eloranta 26 Apr 201927 Sep 2019 At the Start of the Year Kari: I thought I was ready. Student teaching had been everything I’d dreamed it would be. I’d spent countless hours studying, training, and volunteering…
2019… Minding the Body: Towards a Pedagogy of Enactment by Catherine Fox 26 Apr 201927 Sep 2019 Although unable to theorize it at the time, I dropped out of college when I was nineteen because the disconnect had become intolerable. To be a disembodied mind, taking in…
