Spring 2023
Kaleidoscope: Educator Voices and Perspectives
The coronavirus, while making our lives difficult, also provided the space for reflection. What is really important to us? From thinking deeply on what it means to belong, to doubling down on teaching climate change, to shifting our focus on compassion and grace, the teacher-authors in this issue of Kaleidoscope ponder what matters to them and how to make a new reality.
From the Editors’ Desk
What does it mean to be a journal?
Kaleidoscope: Educator Voices and Perspectives is a journal that shares stories by teachers for teachers. But what does the term journal imply? We’ve been pondering that question a lot recently—wondering about the ways that the word may unintentionally and intentionally put up barriers to engaging more people in sharing stories and in reading the stories we have.
In This Issue
Call and Response: What gets you through the tough months of teaching?
We asked teachers in our community what gets them through the tough times. Here’s what they said.
Now on Teacher Voice: Compassion
In this episode of Teacher Voice: The Podcast, we contemplate compassion: for our students, for our classrooms, for each other and for ourselves.
Invisible Identities
What happens when we bring our whole selves into the classroom, instead of showing up as only the teacher?
Teacher Voices: Collaboration is Key to Remote Learning Challenges
Silver linings abound for this author: see how remote teaching prompted additional learning through collaboration with others through the pandemic.
Panel for a Climate Justice Agency: An Up-Beat, Cross-Curricular Lesson on Climate Justice
When teaching climate science, it can be hard to be hopeful in the face of the many global impacts. In this lesson, see how students engage in a solution-oriented activity, confronting multiple climate justice issues head on.
The Illusion of Communication
Misunderstandings abound when we make assumptions about how our communications are received by others.
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About Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope strives to provide readers and writers a public space for discourse and dialogue about the knowledge and expertise of teachers and the complexity of our profession. We believe that teachers are well-positioned to improve education in their classrooms and beyond, and we know the power that storytelling and knowledge sharing can hold in the process of transforming educational outcomes for students.
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