“Is this session going to be interactive?” My colleagues and I were in the process of rearranging the conference room from the traditional arrangement of chairs-in-rows in order to give the room the feeling of a black-box stage when she asked the question. How do …
Read MoreTGIF or CWFM?
It is fairly commonplace in American popular culture to complain about work. A sampling of the top grossing television and film offerings between the mid-20th century and today will result in thousands of examples (maybe more?) of disgruntled co-workers and work-aversion characters. The music industry …
Read MoreReflection of a Year
It’s almost 2019, which means it’s time for a flood of Best of 2018 and Top 5 of 2018 and What’s New in 2019? posts and articles. While many of those are “fluff” pieces to fill space, reflection can be a very useful way to …
Read MoreCh-ch-ch-ch-changes… Location Change, Venue Change, Career Change
I have officially been hired as an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at Alabama A+M University! More on this soon!
Read MoreLast Day of Class: Final “Exam”!
I don’t usually give my students a final. Tests and exams and quizzes do not really fit my stance as a teacher. That is not to say I do not give final assessments to my classes. Projects are more my style. Some of these are …
Read MoreEngaging in Mindfulness
This is the time of year when the anxiety level with my pre-service teachers and teacher candidates are at an all-time high. Some are close to being finished with students teaching and others are wrapping up the last of their coursework. In both cases they …
Read MoreCo-Teaching and Co-Planning
I told myself a couple weeks ago that I would spend a couple hours a week adding to this blog by writing about teaching ideas that are important to me. One of the reasons I decided to do this was because I am tired of …
Read MoreReflections: One Week After #NCTEAR18
I’ve been home for almost a week from the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research winter conference, which was held at Towson University outside of Baltimore, Maryland. It’s been almost a week and I have finally found time to go through my …
Read MoreA Classroom Poster
I asked my pre-service teachers, as part of their weekly reading reflection, to create a multimodal response to “The M Word: Dare We Use It?” by Harrison & Alvermann (2017). I always tell my pre-service teachers that when they ask their students to do something, …
Read MoreRamblings: Some Notes About My Current Research
I have so many thoughts and ideas about where my current project has come from, where it has been, and the direction it is going, and I just know I’m going to come across as a disorganized, absent-minded fool. But trust me when I say …
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