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An “A” Teacher
Blog Series: Changing Scholarship
February 12, 2024
Tags: teaching | Changing Scholarship | A | Availability | Accessibility | Attunable | Approachability | Teacher
I think we all have met them at one point in our educational lives. I call them “A” teachers because they hold certain qualities as educators. I saw it in Mrs. Akiyama, my second-grade teacher who, by some stroke of good fortune, I had as my third-grade teacher too. You ...
When Work Disappears: Thoughts on Keeping Vocation Alive when Our Professional Work Closes
Blog Series: Re/Kindling Creativity and Imagination
December 27, 2021
Tags: teaching | self care | vocation
I came across a book during graduate work whose title still haunts me: When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996). The book is not without controversy as it argues how poverty came to exist in west Chicago because of manufacturing company flight. I am not writing, however, ...