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My Red Pen Is Dusty, and I’m Glad
Over the course of my career as a middle school ELA teacher, I’ve graded more writing pieces than I can count. I’ve graded late into the night, on...
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Native American Heritage Month: Identity & Storytelling
Many lessons ran through my mind while reading There There by Tommy Orange. We could talk about the parallel plot text structure; we could talk about...
Native American Heritage Month: Stereotypes Still Unbroken
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Not long ago, with work piling up, to-do things needing to be done, and the fate of the free world basically depending on what I did next, I chose...
Mental Health Awareness: Your Brain Needs a Hug
The words are never right. The time is never perfect. And life keeps piling stress after stress onto the people we love. What do we say to someone...
Mental Health Awareness: Are u ok?
Being a teenager means a lot of things, but starting to date and get into romantic relationships or friendships sticks out as a huge milestone. The...
What if we taught composition like Bob Ross teaches painting?
Back in my hometown, it was a rite of passage at the age of twelve to get a paper route. There was no status associated with it, nor did it come with...
Hispanic Heritage Month: Three per cent no es Fabuloso
In my first period class of sophomores at a high school on the Southwest side of San Antonio, I had one White student, one Muslim student, and the...
Mental Health Awareness: Kind of Sort of Fine
A bright part of every teacher’s day is getting to the class that your star student is in. You know the one. We see them reach for the sky every time...
Hispanic Heritage Month: Speaking and Scribbling in Spanish
When my mother was going to school in the panhandle of Texas, she and her friends were punished if they spoke Spanish in school. When my brothers and...
Mental Health Awareness: Girl in Pieces
To be mentally healthy requires work, and many youth and their families turn to some kind of therapy, counseling, or inpatient program to aid in that...