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Careers That Fit Well with Education Experience
Listen There are quite a few educators currently out of employment due to the financial repercussions of the pandemic. There are others who are okay for this year but may be facing a similar fate in the near future. There are many others who have lost wages, or for whom...
7 Questions With Caitlin Nguyen
Listen Watch Hi, my name's Caitlin Nguyen, I am a sixth-grade teacher in Utah at Mountain shadows elementary, and I have been there for, let us see, this will be my eighth year. I did two years in kindergarten, one year at first, and this will be my fifth year...
Your Most Marketable Skills, Part 2
Listen Leadership and Management, Data, Technology, and Social Skills Educators are being released from districts around the U.S. due to financial difficulties. Some teachers are having to find more conducive work environments due to districts either doing virtual, in-class learning, or some combination that just doesn’t work for them. Others...
7 Questions With Melinda Suprak
Listen Watch Can you tell us about yourself? My name is Melinda. I am a teacher at Hopewell area school district in Western Pennsylvania. Currently, I teach middle school, life skills, and autistic support. I have worked at the school district for seven years. Why did you start a...
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...
