Friday, March 17, 2017

My exploration of banned and controversial books: The Amazing Bone by William Steig

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Although I found it easy to defend In the Night Kitchen from those who see it as a threat to young children, I cannot find good reasons to ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

My exploration of banned and controversial books: In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

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While I was conducting some online research about children's books that address social issues, I ran across a few lists of banned childr...
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Sunday, March 12, 2017

Check this box: Issues with identity

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https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf181.pdf A few weeks ago, two students came to me and asked, "Are we Hispanic as a race or Hisp...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

My role as a student in blended learning

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In addition to everything else I do, I decided to add yet another challenge: an online blended learning course. One of the first assignmen...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Stop stopping the violence: boys and writing

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One of my assignments for my current graduate diversity class is to conduct research regarding a topic I am interested in, become an "e...
Friday, February 24, 2017

Exploring our futures with our head, heart, hands and feet (Part 3 - Student Samples)

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As promised, I am sharing some student samples. I spoke to each of these students directly about sharing their work, and they were flattered...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Exploring our futures through our head, heart, hands, and feet (Part 2)

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The next piece I added was for my students to create their own children's books, telling the stories of their futures. We started by v...