I really enjoyed reading these two articles on cultural responsive teaching.  I especially liked reading about the success stories and the online resources.  Caren and I are reading a book that portrays teachers who are culturally responsive (ethnically, regionally, urban/rural, etc.).  The teachers in our book, as well as the article, not only celebrate differences and [...]

“Withitness” (p. 202).  What a great term.  This chapter reminded me of when we were supervising our student teachers.  How a look, your proximity to the child, the activity, etc. can make such a great difference with classroom management.  You know, I’ve met a lot of teachers, especially special education teachers, who teach their remedial students [...]

I think like everything else in education, society places the blame on educators when they are the ones who tell us what we should/should not do without being educators themselves.  Education has become a political fight instead of a fight to enhance our future generation to become leading adults.  Everything in education seems to be a crisis.  [...]

After reading Jaeger’s article, I had to remind myself that I was writing an article about our democratic nation, the US of A, and NOT a communist regime or Brazil in Freire’s day.  How can the government and/or your administration mandate what material and in what manner you can teach our student?  It’s propaganda in the schools; you [...]