Harassment in Our Schools
As I am sure we are all aware, there has been a recent wave of news stories about teenage suicides to hit the airwaves. For a while there, it seemed like almost every day there was a new story about… Read more ›
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Teaching Feminism and Body Image: What is Dove Really Selling?
As I was preparing for my annual lesson on persuasive techniques, I came upon an article I had written previously that I thought would be perfect for the audience here at Equality 101. Last year, during a lesson on persuasive… Read more ›
Doing Better Things
When I graduated with my master’s in May, the English department at my college treated the MA students to dinner as a congratulations for finishing our thesis papers and the program. It was a really wonderful evening, and it really… Read more ›
Equality 101 is looking for writers! And so am I!
Hey lovely readers! I know I haven’t been around much lately, and that’s because I’m getting married in, oh, 17 DAYS. And, you know, I’ve been a little busy with that. But don’t worry – I’ll be back full-force very… Read more ›
Why I Love Teaching, and Advice to New Teachers
Since I started student teaching until now, my reason for loving my job has remained the same. Of course, I love it because it makes me feel useful and the students are interesting and often very funny and some of… Read more ›
Think of a time you were facing an important change in your life. What was that change? How did you handle it? Were you ready for it, or did you want everything to stay the way it was? Explain. This… Read more ›
Teaching in a Post-Columbine World
Today, as Americans spend the day commemorating 9/11, I want to turn our attention as educators to another great American tragedy that, I would argue, has changed the teaching profession more than 9/11 ever could. Sure, the tragedy of 9/11… Read more ›
Teacher Burnout
I am in my third week of teaching this school year, and this is about the time that the magic is starting to wear off – the assignments to be graded are piling up, the after school meetings and extra… Read more ›
Do Me A Favor
Thank a teacher today. As teachers are busy setting up classrooms and welcoming students into their room, making safe spaces for ideas and conversation and learning, teacher bashing like is described in this article is happening in the media. School… Read more ›
Creating a Google Calendar with Assignment Attachements for your Students
Today’s post is a video tutorial I created that will show you, in 5 minutes, how to create a Google Calendar that you can share with your students in order to show them what is going on in your classroom. … Read more ›
Getting to Know You, Human Scavenger Hunt Edition
I love the first few days of school. The nervousness, the sleepless nights leading up to it, the not knowing if people will like me, the picking out outfits and setting them out the night before, the packing lunches and… Read more ›
Switch it up!
Today, the harbinger of the end of summer arrived in my mailbox: the back-to-school packet, complete with my parking pass, my institute day schedule, a few announcements, and what every teacher rips open the envelope to see immediately: my schedule… Read more ›
How Important are the SAT and ACT? Really?
I came across an interesting article this week that makes the assertion that “Your SAT score has little to do with your life.” Many colleges are catching on to this. They know that the SAT and the ACT are designed… Read more ›
The CWWN Confernece 2010, or What I Learned About Academia
This past week, I had the good fortune of being able to not only attend, but present my paper on Literacy in the Feminist Blogging Community at my first-ever international conference. The Contemporary Women’s Writing Network conference in San Diego… Read more ›
End the R-Word
Some time ago, in my Theory of Rhetoric graduate class, I left very upset over an argument that ensued over the use of the word “retarded.” It was brought up in one of my classmates’ weekly written responses inspired by… Read more ›
Summer Reading is Not an Extention of Curriculum
We all know that students experience a significant loss of their learning over the summer months, and to curb that loss, at least in the literacy department, many schools assign summer reading to students. As an English teacher, I do… Read more ›
A New Guide for Title IX
As you might expect, here at Equality 1o1, we’ve written about Title IX before. Title IX was a major milestone in legislation for equality in education. And it should be a tool for parents, teachers, and students to use to… Read more ›
I Advocate Feminism
It came to my attention during my blogging break, courtesy of Emily Heroy – Founder of the Gender Across Borders blog and fellow Equality 101 writer – and Liza Donnelly – Cartoonist Extraordinaire – (If you’re not at least following… Read more ›
Personalizing the Educational Experience
There has been quite a bit of talk in the educational world recently about the importance of personalizing the educational experience for students. As teachers, many of us are faced with an alarming rate of students who have somehow fallen… Read more ›
Arizona’s Immigration Law and its Effect on Education
This is just a sneak peek of my first post at Equality 101 after our break. To read the whole article, go here! I do not live in Arizona. In fact, I’ve never even been to Arizona. When I was… Read more ›