Helping Educators Become Culturally Connected!
Can you count how many tech tools you have been introduced to in the past few years and have used only once or not at all? I can count more than twenty. Some of them, I don’t even remember the names but just the visual platform. Day by day, districts are paying for technology tools […] Read more…
I distinctly remember my 10th grade English teacher telling us how to use Google to search for proper citations. Looking at him nodding and pretending to know what Google was is one of the funniest memories I have of high school. Fast forward two decades and Google is everywhere. How I function daily as an […] Read more…
Did I know what SEO was? Nope. Did I know what batch creating was? Nope. Did I have a direction for a niche or an aesthetic? Nope. Sometimes there are too many questions and too many roads to follow to find answers. Plus, one is not sure which route is shorter, scenic or a less […] Read more…
Building relationships is the key to classroom management. I am a firm believer in this basic foundation of sound teaching. Knowing the goals and interests of your students and tailor-making your lesson plans to engage with their unique learning styles makes any job of an educator easier in the long run when students exit your […] Read more…
Growing up, when my Grandparents would pull out photographs printed on metal plates, I thought it was the most fascinating thing to see. I would move the photographs in the light and marvel at the sharp corners. I would weigh the photographs in my hand and wonder how ridiculous it would be to carry around […] Read more…
Go back to where you came from!” I don’t need to tell you how many times I have heard the above command from strangers. I just want you to understand how confusing it is when people yell this at me from their cars and then speed away. My identity journey Let’s examine the statement: “Go […] Read more…
If you are about to head out for the day to go shopping, do you prepare this way? Make sure you do not drink water. Make sure you use the washroom three times. Make sure you are only 20 minutes away from your home. I definitely don’t follow the above list in Chicago. If I […] Read more…
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson was the first person to host a White House Iftar back on December 9, 1805. Read more…
No system is perfect. Let me repeat, no system is perfect. Public schools are not perfect. A system started by Horace Mann in the 1800s is going to have flaws. From lack of new textbooks, turnover over teachers to even missing school funds, the problems can be many. I am a public school teacher and […] Read more…
School choice instills a lot of fear in teachers. Why? School choice means that parents can decide if they want to send their kids to private school, charter school, Montessori school and even homeschool their kids and government funds would follow the student. So no matter where the child goes, funds go with the child. […] Read more…