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August 19, 2022Uncategorizedby

Open Enrollment: Some Notes on Treating Each Other Well

Over the last two weeks, I’ve done a lot of reading state law and local district policies on enrolling nonresident pupils. That’s allowed me to write our Prichard Committee “just-the-facts-ma’am” explainer. In the process, I’ve also formed some opinions about how these changes can be handled to work constructively (or as constructively as possible) for students, staff, families, and communities. They’re my starting thoughts, and I’ll share them here.
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August 10, 2022Uncategorizedby

Prichard Committee Annual Meeting

About the Annual Meeting This year’s Annual meeting will be held in beautiful Berea, KY. We have scheduled learning and engagement events over two days to maximize opportunities for members, stakeholders and partners to connect and reengage.There is a $100 registration fee for the meeting …
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August 9, 2022Uncategorizedby

Elevating & Amplifying Teacher Voice in Kentucky

As schools are starting to open and, across the nation, we are hearing resounding concern about teacher shortages, there is no more important time to celebrate the work Kentucky teachers do – day in and day out. When it comes to what our schools can do to prepare each and every learner for a bright future, research confirms that teaching matters most. Yet so many stories of the impact a teacher has in his or her classroom are overshadowed by the shear busyness of our lives and the extraordinarily tense public-political world we find ourselves in.
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August 5, 2022Uncategorizedby

Building Connections for Student Success: Creating a Mentoring Program for Middle School Students

March 13th, 2020 will be a day I will always remember. Much like 9/11 or when the Challenger fell to Earth, it stands in my memory like a beacon, a marker that changed everything. I walked out of my classroom, not knowing that I wouldn’t see it again for six months and that everything would be so different when I returned. Two years later, I reflect on all that I personally and professionally have gone through and, most importantly, how much education has changed in these two years.
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August 5, 2022Uncategorizedby

Building a New Normal: Fostering Resilience in Elementary Students

During the early days of the 2021 school year, I knew this year was different. Many of my students displayed signs of trauma like not speaking up, being reluctant to make eye contact, not wanting to work in groups, and appearing shy and secluded from …
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August 5, 2022Uncategorizedby

Developing an Explorer Mindset Benefits Teachers, Too

How can the attitudes of an Explorer Mindset (curious, responsible, and empowered) lead to teacher leadership within a school? As my colleagues and I returned last fall and set out to cultivate an explorer mindset for the first full year of in-person instruction since the pandemic began, I was determined to find out.
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August 5, 2022Uncategorizedby

Empowering Student Voice

Engaging learners in social justice through action and ownership. “We’ll need to talk loud for the camera,” Sifa Daudi says as she takes the seat across from 6th grader Aniya Buckner.Teller Penzant, an eighth-grader like Sifa, brings the camera closer to Aniya before adjusting the …
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August 5, 2022Uncategorizedby

Make Students Love to Read Again

This was my fourteenth-year teaching fourth grade. I know my contractual duties are to teach and assess the fourth grade English Language Arts standards; however, before this year even began, I set another professional growth goal for myself. Given the tragic consequences of missing crucial …
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August 5, 2022Uncategorizedby

Making Space and Respecting Student Identity

At the start of last school year, I made a decision that I swiftly came to regret and one that I have worked to undo ever since.For context, I am an English, theater, and creative writing teacher in Greenup County, Kentucky. We are rural eastern …
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August 5, 2022Uncategorizedby

My Journey into Ungrading

Scene: Fall 2019. End of the nine-week grading term is tomorrow. I am checking grades put into our grading software. 89.5 automatically rounds to a 90. 89.4 does not. I round up the 89.4 anyway. I teach, and students learn.
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