Call and Response: New Ideas for Your Teaching
This past summer, we asked teachers in the Knowles community to tell us: “What’s one thing you are going to try differently in your teaching this upcoming year?” Here are their responses.
Spring 2019
Kaleidoscope: Educator Voices & Perspectives
In the Spring 2019 issue of Kaleidoscope, we explore stories of collaboration, teacher identity, leadership, and finding ways to support all students.
From the Editors’ Desk
What is “Normal”?
Reconsidering our ideas of what teaching “should be” and what it can be.
In This Issue
Progressing Towards Mastery: Reflections on Implementing a Proficiency-Based Grading System
How would implementing proficiency-based grading shift our teaching practice?
Difficult Conversations in Support of LGBTQ+ Students
Difficult, uncomfortable conversations improved school culture for LBGTQ+ youth after our newly-developed gay-straight alliance faced community opposition.
The “Invisible Knapsack”: Rip it open. Spend it down.
I used to think of my whiteness as a burden. Now I realize it is an account that I can cash in to weaken systems of unearned power in my classroom and beyond.
From Public School to Homeschool
Experiences in my previous teaching position inform and strengthen my current work as a homeschooling parent.
Transforming Collaborative Culture through Vulnerable Acts of Everyday Leadership
When my school colleagues and I started sharing our vulnerable moments, our departmental culture transformed.
Professional Development: Collaboratively Prototyping Science Classroom Tasks
We self-organized a professional development experience to increase our skills in integrating engineering design and computational thinking tasks into our physics classrooms.
Now on Teacher Voice: Process, Process, Process
In this episode of Teacher Voice: The Podcast, Knowles Fellows discuss the crucial nature of collaborators in writing impactful stories. Join Kaleidoscope staff members as they explore the impact of a published article and discuss how writing can be an act of leadership.
Issue Editors:
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.
Archive
Revisit past issues of Kaleidoscope Journal, published biannually in the spring and fall.
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