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Sharing successes and challenges through teaching while becoming a (hopefully) published author.
Exploring and Responding the Hard Things: Talking About Ukraine
This post explores how I used loose parts, an interactive lecture, and art to help my students start to understand the invasion of Ukraine. It is filled with examples of what I did and provides a few other activities that could be done to support your teaching. My little students with big hearts want everyone to know that they will welcome any Ukrainian people who come to our school and hope the conflict ends peacefully. This is cross-curricular and hands-on.
Making Learning Visible: Reading Comprehension through Class Novels
Readers Request (sort of). This post generally outlines the final activities my class did with the novel Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper. I also focus on shifting reading comprehension activities and assessment when sharing a class novel. One visual map assignment is broken down to explore how visuals can demonstrated deeper comprehension.
Transgender Awareness Week Resources
It is Transgender Awareness Week. This blog post will provide you with literature that you can use from primary through high school. I have also outlined a lesson I ran today using the book Red A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall.