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Sena Kose: In the Middle of Student Teaching (part 6 of 6)

Sena Kose is currently a pre-service teacher from the University of Illinois at Chicago.  She began her student teaching experience in January 2017, and plans to graduate with a certificate to teach English in grades 6-12 in May 2017. This is the final post in a …

Building Community through Collaboration by Lesley Roessing

Originally published on January 24, 2016, Ethical ELA is re-posting “Building Community” by Lesley Roessing as a call to all teachers to make building community a priority in the first weeks of your school year and to nurture community every step of the way. _____________________________________________________________________________ …

The Teacher Continuum: From Hermit to RockStar

Do you have suggestions for building faculty community? Do you think the social events are important or can community be built one relationship at a time? Do you think school faculty relationships necessarily have to extend beyond the school day?

Teacher-Friends: Diane & Sarah

Teaching can feel so lonely at times. Do you have a colleague who is your BFF, who pulls you out from under your desk to make you laugh, who hands you a tissue when you just need to cry, who just inspires you? Diane and Sarah taught together for over a decade, and through a series of email exchanges, they talked about stories, students, and the beauty of teacher-friends.

Think Like Authors by Sarah Dollah-Said

If you want your students to think like authors, then have them speak to authors by Sarah Dollah-Said Being a literature and writing teacher for middle school students is hard enough when you are competing with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumbler (whatever other social media networks …