I had a very productive meeting with the lovely and brilliant Cindy O'Donnell-Allen this afternoon that helped me start gaining some direction for this project. I was wobbling with how to focus my advocacy in two senses; on a single issue, and on how that issue impacts teachers more than students. I feel like we … Continue reading What the Heck Should I Advocate For?? →

The badge I selected for my second badge is the Teacher as Advocate badge because I wanted to learn how to advocate for the issues I believe in both in and out of the classroom. The wobble I'm dealing with right now is choosing which issue I want to center my advocacy plan around. There … Continue reading Morning Pages: Pose, Wobble, Flow →

First of all, I honestly hate these kinds of assessments because it requires me to be super honest with myself about whether or not I truly do fit with the description or if I just want to be. I know that it is good to be self reflective, but sometimes it is hard to tell … Continue reading Level Up: Leadership Compass Self-Assessment →

ADVOCACY IS FOR EVERYONE! I feel like the concept of advocacy has this very daunting stigma about it. People feel like they need to have a special something in order to be an advocate, but that isn't the case at all. Anyone can be an advocate because everyone is capable of cultivating change. It reminds … Continue reading Advocacy? Who? What? Why? →

This past weekend I attended the CLAS Conference in Denver with some other English Education students, as well as Ricki Ginsberg and Pam Coke. This conference was an amazing experience because we got the chance to interact with other preservice teachers, as well as new and seasoned teachers, and the Teacher of the Year award … Continue reading Research Journal #2: CLAS Conference →

This semester I am taking a course on Adolescent Literature. This class is competing for one of the best courses I've taken in college so far. We explore the depth that is contained in the Young Adult genre and all the lenses there are to read various books through. One of the books we read … Continue reading Research Journal #1: Unfamiliar Genre Project Proposal →

I feel like the wobbles I experience most frequently as a writer is in the organization of my writing. I am a very stream-of-consciousness writer, and I end up treating most things like I would a entry in my journal. I just write the words as they come to me and don't typically read over … Continue reading Morning Pages: Weebles Wobble, But They Don’t Fall Down →

Being a teacher will put me in a very influential position in a lot of students lives, and what I get to do with that influence is what makes me so stoked to be a teacher. Not many people get to spend 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, 9 months of the year … Continue reading Morning Pages: 3-Foot Circle of Influence →

Dear Sonia, I want to teach now because in this day and age, I believe that education is our only hope for survival. With constant acts and attitudes of division within our county, I believe that education is the only hope for bringing us together. As the world continues to perpetuate a hierarchy of who … Continue reading Morning Pages: Why I Want to Teach Now →