On Harry Potter and Whose Stories are Told | While taking a class about Harry Potter, I realized that teaching any subject—even science—is subjective. | 2021 |
Professional Development: Collaboratively Prototyping Science Classroom Tasks | We self-organized a professional development experience to increase our skills in integrating engineering design and computational thinking tasks into our physics classrooms. | 2018 |
Transforming Collaborative Culture through Vulnerable Acts of Everyday Leadership | When my school colleagues and I started sharing our vulnerable moments, our departmental culture transformed. | 2018 |
From Public School to Homeschool | Experiences in my previous teaching position inform and strengthen my current work as a homeschooling parent. | 2018 |
Difficult Conversations in Support of LGBTQ+ Students | Difficult, uncomfortable conversations improved school culture for LBGTQ+ youth after our newly-developed gay-straight alliance faced community opposition. | 2018 |
The “Invisible Knapsack”: Rip it open. Spend it down. | I used to think of my whiteness as a burden. Now I realize it is an account that I can cash in to weaken systems of unearned power in my classroom and beyond. | 2018 |
Sparking Change: Equity Initiatives in a Liberal Arts Charter School | Working with students and colleagues at a classical school to improve school-wide culture and address systematic inequalities. | 2018 |
Being More Than the Violence Around Us | A teacher at a school affected by a mass shooting reflects on how we respond to violence. | 2018 |
Weather and Climate: A Story of Teacher Leadership | Comparing real-life weather and climate with lunchtime conversations in the teacher's lounge. | 2018 |
Barriers and Blessings | I shared openly about my hearing loss with students but struggled privately with vision issues. | 2018 |