Excellent teachers get to know each of their students on a personal level, identifying their strengths and building upon them to make those students successful members of society.”
Beverly’s Story
Beverly Stuckwisch wanted to be a teacher for as long as she can remember: At six years old, she set up a classroom in her living room where she taught her little sister about the planets. She was fascinated with science and math throughout school, but it was her high school chemistry teacher who helped Beverly realize her passion for chemistry. “She was able to take a subject often thought of as difficult and boring and make it fun, interesting, and relevant!” As an undergraduate, Beverly explored other career options but kept coming back to teaching. “When I started in the teacher education program at Michigan State University (MSU) and got in the classroom, I knew that my first instinct had been right all along.”
Each year of her career has only further solidified that she made the right choice. Beverly has since taught a variety of both chemistry and math courses, and currently teaches and serves as the math department chair at Dublin Coffman High School in Dublin, Ohio. She prioritizes student voice and choice in her classroom and strives to collaborate with both colleagues and students to ensure her classes are fun and relevant to students. Her pedagogy is largely based on the pillars of Building Thinking Classrooms and Complex Instruction.
Beverly also has a passion for elevating teacher voices in the public discourse about education. To that end, she serves as an Editor in Chief for Kaleidoscope: Educator Voices & Perspectives, and has led several local professional development sessions about teacher writing.
Resources
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Kaleidoscope Community Building Teacher Leadership Poetry Corner: Growing Through Peer AdvisingKaleidoscope’s peer advisors use poetry to reflect on their learning and future areas of growth.
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Kaleidoscope Community Building Teacher Leadership Peer Advising: A Lever to Promote Teacher StorytellingLearn more about the peer advising experience from both the authors’ and the advisors’ perspective.
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Blog Community Building Teacher Leadership Teacher Voices Through the Years: Kaleidoscope’s Top Reads (Part 3)For the last ten years, Knowles has been publishing a journal of teacher writing, called Kaleidoscope: Educator Voices and Perspectives. We are sharing some of our most read articles from the past ten years. Read articles #3-#1.
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Blog Community Building Teacher Leadership Teacher Voices Through the Years: Kaleidoscope’s Top Reads (Part 2)For the last ten years, Knowles has been publishing a journal of teacher writing, called Kaleidoscope: Educator Voices and Perspectives. We are sharing some of our most read articles from the past ten years. Read articles #7-#4.
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Blog Community Building Teacher Leadership Teacher Voices Through the Years: Kaleidoscope’s Top Reads (Part 1)For the last ten years, Knowles has been publishing a journal of teacher writing, called Kaleidoscope: Educator Voices and Perspectives. We are sharing some of our most read articles from the past ten years. Read articles #10-#8.
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Kaleidoscope Math Teacher Sustainability Poetry Corner: AutopilotExplore the hardship and beauty of teaching through poetry.
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Kaleidoscope Teacher Leadership Teaching Strategies Call and Response: Small Changes, Positive ImpactWe asked our community: Describe a change you made that had a positive impact for a student.
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Kaleidoscope From the Editors’ Desk: Pivotal MomentsWhen we encounter stories of teachers who have made meaningful changes, we often find that there were one or two pivotal moments that sparked—or even demanded—change.
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Kaleidoscope Call and Response: The Impact of KnowlesWe asked teachers in the Knowles community to reply to this prompt: “C. Harry Knowles, founder of the Knowles Teacher Initiative, passed away recently at 91. How has being a Knowles Fellow impacted your teaching or career?” Here are their responses.
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Kaleidoscope From the Editors’ Desk: Remembering Harry KnowlesThe Kaleidoscope editors reflect on the impacts of Harry’s work with the Knowles Teacher Initiative.
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Kaleidoscope Teacher Leadership Teacher Sustainability Now on Teacher Voice: After the Story’s OutIn this episode of Teacher Voice: The Podcast, teachers talk about what happened for them after their writing was published.
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Kaleidoscope Community Building Teacher Leadership Difficult Conversations in Support of LGBTQ+ StudentsDifficult, uncomfortable conversations improved school culture for LBGTQ+ youth after our newly-developed gay-straight alliance faced community opposition.
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Kaleidoscope Identity Teacher Sustainability Raise Your Hand: What’s Teaching Taught You?This issue, we asked teachers in the Knowles community to write about one thing teaching has taught them. Here are their responses.
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Kaleidoscope Science Teaching Strategies Professional Development: Literacy LearningI took a class to develop strategies to better teach literacy in my science classes.
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Kaleidoscope Community Building Identity Raise Your Hand: Student Advocacy in Uncertain TimesIn “Raise your hand,” we ask for short responses to a pressing question facing teachers. These are difficult questions, often without a satisfying answer, but we hope these reflections will help you develop new ideas, build empathy, and start conversations with students and colleagues.
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Kaleidoscope Teaching Strategies Technology An Honest Look at a One-to-One ClassroomHow laptops transformed my ideas about what role technology should play in my classroom.
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