A Turnaround Teacher

@turnaroundteacher

Hi. I'm A. I teach English. Five years ago, I helped restart a failing middle school in a large urban district. While at grad school, this is a brain-dump place to capture the real-life implications of my reading, my questions and pushbacks, and my ideas and commitments for my classroom and school upon my return next year.

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I always tell my girls - you have to be able to defend yourself in the streets, but also intellectually.

just one quotable tidbit from a 30-year-old mom on the phone with me for 25 min on a holiday

LGBTQ academic inquiry units at a glance provide an overview of the Give Voice to History project and HUE's K-12 LGBTQ Academic Inquiry Series

#queer #curric

#familyengagement

#change #switch

Critical Hope

From Critical Hope and struggles for justice: An antidote to despair for antiracism educators (only pp. 101-103). In Discerning Critical Hope in Educational Practices. New York. Routledge.

“Only when we are in the fight day-to-day are we prepared tor the large battles, and only when many are prepared for large battles can we marshal the force needed to win substantive victories.

The Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney (1991: 77; emphasis in original) put this truth into these telling lines:

History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-tor tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.”

#criticalhope #poetry

#socioemotional #selfregulation

Letter from a Freedman to his Old Master

#tone #history

#resources #resist

Now, she has to take on Donald Trump and Paul Ryan.

#lunch

In an era of national attention to what's real and what isn't, we asked educators to share their strategies for helping students sort out fact from fiction.

#media literacy #fake news