Today’s blog post comes from Erin Dyke. Erin is an assistant professor of curriculum studies in the School for Teaching and Curriculum Leadership at Oklahoma State University. Her research focuses on pedagogies of social movement spaces; social justice, abolitionist, and decolonial movements in education; and …
Today’s writing inspiration comes from Kimberly Johnson, Ed.D. She is a literacy coach and media specialist in a public school in rural Georgia. She enjoys writing as a guest blogger for www.writerswhocare.com and counts down the days between monthly 5-Day Writing Challenges. She is the …
Today’s writing inspiration comes from Susie Morice, writer and editor. She is a consultant with Santa Fe Center for Transformational School Leadership and the Institute for School Partnership at Washington University in St. Louis. Susie is also a Teacher-Consultant with The Gateway Writing Project, a …
A special thanks to Travis Crowder for inspiring us with verse days six through eleven. The poems crafted and shared here show the power of poetry to notice, remember, heal, and nurture community. Inspiration A Space of Meaning. I love the outdoors, as do many …
Inspiration: Emotional Memory I’m always haunted by memories, especially those associated with emotions such as grief, betrayal, and hurt. I know these are negative emotions, but part of healing is accepting and acknowledging their presence in our lives. Poem Process Choose an emotional memory. It …
Inspiration Today, we welcome Kwame Alexander’s poem “In My Closet, On the Top Shelf, is a Silver Box.” (Crush: Love Poems for Teenagers, 2008). Alexander’s poem serves as a mentor text to collect thinking. I love this poem because the short lines, divided with commas, …
By Brian Charest, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Redlands, School of Education Last week, we saw firsthand the incredible democratic potential and power of civic engagement. Hundreds of thousands of students across the country, in places like Los Angeles and Chicago, from New York to Parkland, and …
How It Began It was awkward at first: we knew that parents-to-be could read to their unborn child throughout pregnancy, but it felt strange for 30-somethings to be reading Dr. Seuss on the couch at night. Even the dogs looked at us funny. And when …
In my office rest several boxes, filled with remnants of my childhood–books from my earliest reading days and pages of hand-written stories, ones held together by frayed and faded blue thread. Every so often, I dig through these boxes. Even now, as I glance at …
It was a beautiful and rare, sunny afternoon in Seattle, Washington. I was walking down a hallway with Jane Addams Middle School principal, Paula Montgomery, when she stopped suddenly and stepped into a classroom. We had been chatting about that afternoon’s professional development that I’d …