Category Archives: Social Action
In Praise of Short Texts
As career teachers, we know there is one certainty that all teachers face: when it comes to thinking, reading, and writing, we must all teach process. If we want students to read, view, listen, think or produce, we can’t make … Continue reading
Transformational Service
Pattie Sloan and Joan Flora: two teachers challenging the status quo There is a cock-eyed, optimistic belief we hold that, within each student, is the desire and ability to take a step of faith, do something dangerous and make a change in their … Continue reading
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Behind Every Success, There is a Wise Teacher
Pattie Sloan and Joan Flora: two teachers challenging the status quo Indulge me a little. This summer was full of life-changing experiences for me, and many of the adventures directly relate to your classroom. And before I continue, yeah, that’s a lemur on my shoulder. I … Continue reading
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Tagged classroom lessons that change students, Engaging students for life, teachers can help heal the environment
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What is the Real Price of Cheap?
Pattie Sloan and Joan Flora: two teachers challenging the status quo Transformational classrooms allow the world into the curriculum and create open discussion about the world and its problems. But moving beyond the problems, a transformational classroom creates change … Continue reading
Left Behind: Children of the Incarcerated
By Joan Flora, Pattie Sloan, and Dorothy Flora, three teachers challenging the status quo Orange is the New Black, Season 2 is scheduled to be released in two weeks by Netflix. Here’s the gist: the television show is based on … Continue reading
Posted in Literacy, Social Action, Uncategorized
Tagged 90/90/90 schools, children of incarcerated parents, costs of locking up parents, empowering students, engaged learners, English Teachers, High School Literature Teachers, hunger in American, Mind Set, poverty, prison, students living in poverty
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Implementing Justice in an Unjust Classroom
By Pattie Sloan and Joan Flora: two teachers challenging the status quo When thinking about poverty and its impact on society, many of us to think about the streets of the inner-city or across the ocean to a Third World Nation. The reality … Continue reading
Why We Need the Arts and PE in Our Schools
by Joan Flora and Pattie Sloan: two teachers challenging the status quo Brace yourselves for CNN’s report by Kathleen Porter-Magee; this is going to hurt: Affluent youngsters, especially if they were also white, were much likelier to get rigorous curricula, advanced courses, … Continue reading
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Tagged 90/90/90 schools, American students in poverty, CCSS, Common Core, decision making, Education, empowering students, engaged learners, English Teachers, equality in education, Eric Jensen, Failing students, High School Literature Teachers, Increasing student achievement, Language Arts, Mind Set, Paul Tough, poverty in America, Social Action, students living in poverty, Teaching students from poverty, The American Dream
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Giving Poverty a Voice: West Salem HS Students for Change
Pattie Sloan and Joan Flora: two teachers challenging the status quo. Generational poverty isn’t easy to talk about. It’s challenging to understand poverty as a complex social force; it’s uncomfortable to look at our own responses, as Americans, to American poverty. However, … Continue reading
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Tagged decision making, Education, Educators, empowering students, engaged learners, English Teachers, High School Literature Teachers, hunger in American, Language Arts, Mind Set, poverty, students living in poverty, Teachers as Readers, Teaching, The American Dream
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Teaching it Forward 