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Your Most Marketable Skills, Part 1
Listen Communication, Instruction, and Complex Thinking Skills Educators in some parts of the U.S. have started seeing the economic repercussions of the pandemic. Some places have started to shed staff as budgets crumble and belts tighten.In other places, teachers are finding returning to teaching in the fall in either virtual...
7 Questions With Kerri Shuler
Listen Watch Can you tell us about yourself? My name is Kerri Shuler. I work in Minnesota at Ramsey elementary school as a special education teacher for grades one through three. I mainly work with students with learning disabilities and developmental delays. Um, I have been there. This is my...
Teaching Culturally Responsive Literature: Part 5, Asian American Literature
Listen A year ago, Hollywood was all abuzz with the release of Crazy Rich Asians. It was the first all-Asian cast movie to be released from a major studio in over 25 years. How is it that a cultural subpopulation of over 21,000,000 has received such little attention in modern...
Teaching Culturally Responsive Literature: Part 4, Literature Dealing with Low Socio-Economics
Listen Regardless of your political preferences or perspectives, it is undeniable that we are entering into a time of great economic distress. More and more of our students are going to be dealing with poverty, hunger, and housing insecurity. The financial difficulty often leads to additional stresses at home, including...
7 Questions With Chuck Conrad
Listen Watch Can you tell us about yourself? My name is Chuck Conrad. I teach at Randleman high school and teach electronics in the vocational department called career technical education. The school is located in Randleman, North Carolina, just a few miles South of a brain rural North Carolina. I've...
7 Questions With Vickie Denton
Listen Watch Can you tell us about yourself? My name is Vicki Dayton. I teach at Mount Horeb elementary school. I am a kindergarten teacher. I have taught at this school for seven years and another school in our County for 20. My school is located in Dandridge, Tennessee. ...
7 Questions With Mary Huss
Listen Watch Can you tell us about yourself? Hi, my name is Mary Catherine Huss. I go by Ms.Huss. I teach seventh-grade math at Holmes middle school in Eden, North Carolina. I've been a teacher there for 10 years. I'm so good at the subject that, that can't get...
