Increasing Minorities in STEM Starts in the Classroom
Working in STEM is a collaborative effort. Most STEM careers rely on input from multiple STEM professionals, collaboration, and referencing work of others in the […]
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The Magic of the Margins
Being from Kentucky, I’m familiar with corn fields and their look. The same things, planted in rows and columns, spread apart the same length. There […]
The Space Between : Teaching in the Margins
What’s a margin, and how do I get there? A forest tree line. An intertidal zone. That little grassy space between a highway and a […]
Exemplary Science Classrooms
Close your eyes and imagine this scenario: a classroom with white walls, a row of desks, and a teacher lecturing to the students. Imagine the […]
Unpacking ‘For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood’: Transformative Lessons in Education
The book For White People Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest if Y’all Too by Christopher Emdin, has reshaped my instructional approach. In […]
Teaching Diverse Learners
Emdin’s “For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest of Y’all Too” Is a book about how he, as a student of […]
Trauma-Influenced Pedagogy
‘Fostering Resilient Learners; Strategies for creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom’ By Kristin Souers and Peter hall is a book written with an extreme purpose in mind. […]
Trauma Informed Teaching: How do we get there?
Teaching not only ourselves, but also our students on how to be resilient as science learners will better prepare them for scenarios they might encounter […]
Thinking Coming To Life
The book making thinking visible plays an extreme role in our future classrooms, so many of the rudimentary curriculum involves students mindlessly filling in worksheets, […]
Welcome to my Classroom: MTV
As an educator, it is important to think about the differences between schooling and education. Schooling is simply the action of students going to school […]