Now on Teacher Voice: Affinity Groups
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Professional Development: Literacy Learning
[…]edition (Gambrell and Morrow, 2014), with the rest being online articles that can be accessed for free within the course. Since the course is taught online, the majority of collaboration takes place on an online discussion board. Lesson plans and literacy strategies are shared and discussed online. Pre- and post-assessments are administered to the case study student(s) to see if implemented literacy strategies have an effect. Who should consider this PD? The course is offered to all teachers K-12, in any content area, and can be used to meet part of the reading education requirement to proceed to the professional license […]
Now on Teacher Voice: Changing Careers, Part Two
[…]teachers’ experiences after publishing their work, listen to Teacher Voice: The Podcast. Download Article Download Podcast […]
The Case for Resubmissions: Building a Values-Driven Assessment System in your Classroom
[…] . . . that feedback matters, and that it’s the ANALYSIS of data that propels learning forward.” Furthermore, Kirstin walks us through how she went about making this sustainable for her by reflecting on what is important to her as a learner, and as a teacher, and structuring her resubmission policy to highlight those values. Aligning her classroom practices with her values made the sometimes more difficult work of allowing resubmission feel meaningful and important, among the many meaningful and important tasks we accomplish as teachers. Download Article Download […]
Sew What? Engineering Fashion in the Classroom
[…]get-your-hands-messy, make-mistakes, not-quite-sure-where-we’re-going-to-end-up sort of learning,” and it stuck with the teachers well into the school year.” Download Article Kate Miller, a Knowles Senior Fellow, is currently in her fifth year of teaching physics at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia. In her free time, Kate enjoys training parkour and Krav Maga. Reach Kate at kate.miller@ […]
When Relationship Building Fails
[…]as a teacher. While writing and reflecting upon Jaz, I wrestled with contrasting feelings of comfort and desperation. I remembered that a relationship is a two-way street; it cannot be built unless both parties are willing to invest. I was comforted by this at first because it reminded me that I was not solely responsible for building our relationship; Jaz had not been invested in our relationship, just in soccer. But it did not resolve the sinking feeling of why I could not connect with him and get him to care a little more. I had a wise teacher once […]
Prologue
[…]in making things safe for students in so many ways. We at Kaleidoscope are deeply grateful to our community for writing and sharing your stories, as well as for reading and listening to the stories of others. Through our work, we have learned, without question, that stories are how we show up for each other. They’re how we celebrate, interrogate and honor the strengths, identities and experiences of our world’s beautiful plurality. They’re how we hold each other accountable. And they’re how we learn, together, to build opportunities that dismantle systems of oppression. Our nation’s systems of schooling have a […]
Six Knowles Fellows Achieve National Board Certification
I am from Not Knowing When Her Car will Come Through the Snow
[…]are part of how my students and I work together and how we talk together, and how I can be there for them.” Content warning: This story contains themes of childhood trauma and mental illness. Download Article Download Audio Transcript Kirstin Milks, a Knowles Senior Fellow and an editor-in-chief of Kaleidoscope, learns with and from AP Biology and Earth/space students at Bloomington High School South in Bloomington, Indiana. She’d like to thank the participants of the Beyond Words workshop at the 2018 Knowles Teacher Initiative Summer Meeting, the staff of Kaleidoscope, and her family for helping her learn to tell […]
Six KSTF Fellows Achieve National Board Certification
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