I opened my email one afternoon to find another message from an Instructional Assistant (IA) that read: “Jake* did a lousy work on Q3 book review. (l got a headache!!!!) He left...
On February 8, Lead by Learning Teacher Leaders from across our partner sites met over Zoom for our Spring Teacher Leader Network. Asked why being a teacher leadership matters to them, our educators shared: “Allows...
After over a year of distance learning my students and I were feeling burned out. We were in the last stretch of the year, spring 2021. There was just enough time to start another literacy unit, but it...
With the start of a virtual school year looming, I spent the summer of 2020 grappling with the idea of teaching my incoming freshmen history students in a Zoom setting. I always strive to create a comfortable, welcoming...
Building rapport with students was an experience I was looking forward to as a first year teacher. It was also completely unprecedented and not what I had expected. As we eased into the virtual school year, I had...
There were still three months to go in the school year. My students had amazed me with how well they took to this strange new normal, but in recent weeks it seemed that everyone’s focus had started to...
When our site decided to focus our inquiries on the intersection of writing and social emotional learning, I immediately knew that I wanted to spend the year investigating how to support my second graders with revision. I love...
Students often have misconceptions about Computer Science (CS) as a subject around who can be successful at it and who can’t. My school starts CS education as early as 6th grade and by the time I see them...
I have had the privilege of serving as the principal of De Anza High School for the past five years. De Anza is an incredibly diverse urban high school in Richmond, California. Our staff has made huge gains...
