Story time!
My freshman Honors English teacher and speech team coach, Mr. John Hires, sat us all down on the last day of school my freshman year and just looked at us. He sighed a deep sigh and put his hands on the table, arms outstretched. He said: “I wish there was more time. I wish I [...]
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“I wish there was more time.”
Miss Ashley and the Students of the Round Table
Roundtable discussions are my absolute, most favorite thing to do with students in my English class, and the last roundtable of the year always makes me a little sad.
I’m sure most of you can figure out what a roundtable discussion is, but for those of you who don’t know, it’s an activity during which I [...]
Doing Better Things
Last night, the English department at my college treated the Masters students to dinner as a congratulations for finishing our thesis papers and the program. It was a really wonderful evening, and it really didn’t set it until last night that I’ve finished my Master’s. It feels good, but it’s also bittersweet. I will miss [...]
Recommended Reading: 4-18-2010
Don’t forget! There’s still time to donate to my Avon Walk for Breast Cancer AND to RSVP for the #chifems April Tweetup!
The Impact of Twitter on Feminism: Its Facilitations & Limitations by Emily Heroy
Feminism makes it way all across the internet–in universities all over the world, news articles posted online, in forums, on [...]
“Activism” Can Ruin Lives
I want to spend a little time today talking about online activism and the difference between, say, what the feminist blogging community is doing and what I will call "Facebook activism." While I believe wholeheartedly in the possibilities of blogging as a form of activism (and that belief is even stronger after researching and writing [...]
Being an Activist Every Day
A little while ago, I wrote a few posts about teaching everyday activism to my sophomores. (here and here) For that lesson, I used an article from Gender Across Borders about Miep Gies. The second-to-last paragraph in this article reads:
I wonder how the world would respond to Gies’ actions today. Much has changed in [...]
You’re right. I don’t know you.
This is a cross-post from Equality 101.
You know those days when everything just lines up perfectly and all your synapses start firing and things just connect? Yesterday was one of those days. It started with Adam’s thought-provoking post from yesterday and a conversation that keeps reoccurring with my students, continued during my grad class last [...]
Valentine’s Day and The Laramie Project
I have written before about The Laramie Project. Please take a few seconds to read that post – especially the comments – before reading this one.
This Valentine’s Day, I was fortunate enough to see a former student in a production of The Laramie Project. It was, quite honestly, one of the most wonderful moments of [...]
Female Teachers and Female Students’ Math Anxiety, Part 2
Recently, I posted some thoughts here and at Equality 101 about a study regarding female teachers passing their anxiety toward math to their female students, and my thoughts were met with some dispute, both by Veronica at Girl w/Pen! and in the comments of my post. Makomk in the comments of my post and [...]
