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Mental Health Awareness: Are u ok?

Jennifer Epping

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...

Literature ELA Mental Health Awareness

Michael M. Guevara

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...

Literature ELA Hispanic Heritage Month

Mental Health Awareness: Kind of Sort of Fine

Jennifer Epping

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...

Literature ELA Mental Health Awareness

Michael M. Guevara

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...

Literature ELA Hispanic Heritage Month Downloadable Resources

Mental Health Awareness: Girl in Pieces

Jennifer Epping

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...

Literature ELA Mental Health Awareness

Mental Health Awareness: Writing as a Healthy Outlet

Jennifer Epping

Mental health is just as important as our physical health, and many educators understand this. According to the National Institute of Mental Health,...

Literature ELA Mental Health Awareness

Michael M. Guevara

Growing up with three brothers and not Catholic, quinceañeras weren’t really a thing we did. But when Yvette Guerrero turned 15 and Betty Espinosa...

Literature ELA Hispanic Heritage Month

Michael M. Guevara

Driving into El Paso, Texas, at night on I-10W remains a glorious sight to behold.

Literature ELA Hispanic Heritage Month

Michael M. Guevara

Back when I was a whippersnapper wearing dungarees and walking to school and back in the snow uphill both ways, nothing beat the school book fair....

Literature ELA Hispanic Heritage Month

Real to Reel: Backwards Writing

Jennifer Epping

It’s not very often that TV shows or movies come before the book version, but it does happen sometimes! The art of writing is alive in visual media...

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Text: Download Lesson; Image: Are u ok? book cover

Mental Health Awareness: Are u ok?

Jennifer Epping

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 thing most teens need is guidance to make a healthy choice when choosing with whom to be friends or more than friends. Many students have seen toxic...

Text: Read More; Image: Book covers for The Inexplicable Logic of my Life, The Living, and CeCe Rios and the Desert of Souls

Hispanic Heritage Month: Three per cent no es Fabuloso

Michael M. Guevara

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 rest were Hispanic, Latinx, Mexican.

Text: download Lesson; Image: Kind of Sort of Fine by Spencer Hall book

Mental Health Awareness: Kind of Sort of Fine

Jennifer Epping

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 we ask the class a question, they volunteer their personal time to help us staple packets, and they befriend the quiet kid during partner activities....

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Speaking and Scribbling in Spanish

Michael M. Guevara

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 I were growing up, my parents spoke English to us in the home so we would be successful in school.

Text: Download Lesson; Image: Girl in Pieces book cover

Mental Health Awareness: Girl in Pieces

Jennifer Epping

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 work. Sometimes it’s just a friendly listening ear or an elder who might have been in their shoes once. Whatever the outlet or regimen recommended,...

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Mental Health Awareness: Writing as a Healthy Outlet

Jennifer Epping

Mental health is just as important as our physical health, and many educators understand this. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, “nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (51.5 million in 2019).” Depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder, the list goes on and...

Text: Download Lesson; Image: Once Upon a Quincenera book cover

Hispanic Heritage Month: A Quinceañera Para Todos

Michael M. Guevara

Growing up with three brothers and not Catholic, quinceañeras weren’t really a thing we did. But when Yvette Guerrero turned 15 and Betty Espinosa asked me to stand up with her in the quince, I had my first real experience with the hoopla that is the quinceañera.

Text: Download Lesson; Image: Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez book cover

Hispanic Heritage Month: Something Not to Miss

Michael M. Guevara

Driving into El Paso, Texas, at night on I-10W remains a glorious sight to behold.

Text: Download Lesson; Image: Colorful Blanket

Truth and Tears at the School Book Fair

Michael M. Guevara

Back when I was a whippersnapper wearing dungarees and walking to school and back in the snow uphill both ways, nothing beat the school book fair. When I was the K-12 English Language Arts and Reading coordinator in a small southside district in San Antonio, there was still nothing that beat the...

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Real to Reel: Backwards Writing

Jennifer Epping

It’s not very often that TV shows or movies come before the book version, but it does happen sometimes! The art of writing is alive in visual media with scripts and screenplays, but turning those scenes, characters, and situations into chapters in a book sounds more difficult than turning a book...

Literature (6)

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Literature (6)

Mental Health Awareness: Are u ok?

Hispanic Heritage Month: Three per cent no es Fabuloso

Mental Health Awareness: Kind of Sort of Fine

Hispanic Heritage Month: Speaking and Scribbling in Spanish

Mental Health Awareness: Girl in Pieces

Mental Health Awareness: Writing as a Healthy Outlet

Hispanic Heritage Month: A Quinceañera Para Todos

Hispanic Heritage Month: Something Not to Miss

Truth and Tears at the School Book Fair

Real to Reel: Backwards Writing

Mental Health Awareness: Are u ok?

Hispanic Heritage Month: Three per cent no es Fabuloso

Mental Health Awareness: Kind of Sort of Fine

Hispanic Heritage Month: Speaking and Scribbling in Spanish

Mental Health Awareness: Girl in Pieces

Mental Health Awareness: Writing as a Healthy Outlet

Hispanic Heritage Month: A Quinceañera Para Todos

Hispanic Heritage Month: Something Not to Miss

Truth and Tears at the School Book Fair

Real to Reel: Backwards Writing

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