Multimodal
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Language and Neurodiversity
As we dive into one of our primary resources for this FPLC, I am thinking more about language and the way it plays a role in defining “normal” in our society. In my…
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SASC and the 5 M’s of Talent
I have come to the conclusion, as crazy as it sounds, that there is no such thing as innate talent. Dr. Rishi Sriram In this episode of LearnSmart, Dr. Rishi Sriram discusses his…
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Making Learning Visible: Reflection for 2022
At the end of the term, reflection mode commences. One activity that I planned to regularly incorporate was the SAIL activity (Share-Ask-Ideas-Learned). I used SAIL for all my student workers this term. For…
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Making Learning Visible Reflection and Resources
For our team’s professional learning this summer, we read The Power of Making Learning Visible by Ron Ritchart and Mark Church, published in 2020. I liked the structure of the book, with each…
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New Year, New Beginnings
January is my favorite time to think about the previous year. Maybe it’s the feeling that a new year means a new start or just that the holiday rush has subsided and my…
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In the Middle
Last year, I read the book September 1918, which details that month in 1918 when baseball players were gearing up to strike, the United States was deep in World War I, and the…
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2020 and BLM
This year has been more dynamic than any I can remember. To better understand racism in America, I have been reading and listening. I have lived in America for my whole life, and…
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Reflections on iGen
I first encountered Jean Twenge’s research in her 2017 Atlantic article “Has the Smart Phone Destroyed a Generation?” and soon incorporated it into my English 110 class as a reading connected to my…
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Teaching with Multimodal Sources
For much of my early teaching career, I did not engage with technology much. When I first started teaching, I taught in a public school that had 2 Mac desktops, and it seemed…
