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What My Transgender High School Student Taught Me About Being True to Yourself

12 Nov 201512 Nov 2015

“She—he—goes by Elvin,” my coworker whispers. I look at the student fumbling with the cart of computers in the front of the room. She—he—formerly Cadence, then Cade, and now Elvin,…

8th Grade Reading…

CRAP Test

27 Oct 201516 Mar 2016

My eighth graders are working on a perseverance project to tie into Hunger Games. To connect main character Katniss' life with other lives, the students are researching a person in their field…

8th Grade Reading…

Pre-Planning House on Mango Street

27 Oct 20151 Dec 2015

Next week I will completely take over the eighth grade classes and teach House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Since I will become, in my cooperating teacher's place, one of the…

Saying Goodbye to My Honors Classes

19 Oct 201521 Oct 2015

Friday was my last day at Mason City High School, bittersweet to say the least. Saying goodbye to my Honors 10 group was tough. I had become particularly fond of…

Classroom Prep/Set-Up…

Notes on My Students

16 Oct 201521 Oct 2015

As my first placement comes to a close, there's one thing I wanted to make sure to do before leaving: create a student note sheet for my cooperating teacher so…

Compare & Contrast – Tuesdays with Morrie Movie

15 Oct 201519 Oct 2015

My kids finished reading Tuesdays with Morrie! Yay! To complete the unit, I wanted the students to watch the movie and to compare the book and the movie--understanding literature through multiple…