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Category: Sheryl Lain

2020…

Come on in! The Water’s Fine: School Reform Begins with Me by Sheryl Lain

5 May 20206 May 2020
When I was a kid, I could not bring my toes to release their hold on the lip of the high dive, even though my girlfriend pressed me forward, begging…
2020…

Fibonacci Spiral, or Why Four Middle Schoolers Are Enough by Sheryl Lain

5 May 2020
A Fibonacci spiral follows the sequence 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 11, etc., where each number is the sum of the two numbers before it; pineapples, starfish, sunflower…
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…

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2020 Issue

  • Come on in! The Water’s Fine: School Reform Begins with Me by Sheryl Lain
  • Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: A Cautionary Tale of Totalitarian Ideology by Shahin Hossain
  • The Over-Simplified Guide to Creating Courses, Unit Plans, & Lessons by Jean Prokott
  • Becoming THAT Teacher—An Account of One Year of Teaching by Kasden Watson
  • #ReadingWars and Equity by Allison Sirovy
  • Fibonacci Spiral, or Why Four Middle Schoolers Are Enough by Sheryl Lain
  • “Cool” Theft: AAVE Appropriation as a Tool of White Hegemony by Anna Lehn
  • Didn’t I See That Before?: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado” Seen in Saw & Saw IV by T. Madison Peschock
  • Shoes, Rap Music, and Guns: Transitional Objects as Objective Correlatives in Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone by Tanya Stafsholt Miller
  • “It’s Not the Teacher’s Job”: Talking About Death and Death-Related Grief with Picture Books in Classrooms by Jongsun Wee and Heather J. Fye
  • What Matters in the Classroom? A Pre-Survey by Jean Prokott
  • Three Poems by Jean Prokott

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  • Technology and Critical Thinking by Jennifer Hiltner
  • Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby by Elisa Malinovitz
  • Theory in Practice in the High School Classroom: Using The Kite Runner to Teach Literary Theory by Taya Sazama

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