Finding Sustainability, Joy, and Connection in Teaching Through Mindfulness and Self-Compassion | Documenting my learning journey and what it’s meant for my teaching practice. | 2018 |
Sparking Change: Equity Initiatives in a Liberal Arts Charter School | Working with students and colleagues at a classical school to improve school-wide culture and address systematic inequalities. | 2018 |
Being More Than the Violence Around Us | A teacher at a school affected by a mass shooting reflects on how we respond to violence. | 2018 |
Professional Development: Yosemite Field Institute | A short course for science teachers at Yosemite National Park changed how three Fellows use outdoor education in their classrooms. | 2018 |
Weather and Climate: A Story of Teacher Leadership | Comparing real-life weather and climate with lunchtime conversations in the teacher's lounge. | 2018 |
Barriers and Blessings | I shared openly about my hearing loss with students but struggled privately with vision issues. | 2018 |
Summits and Valleys | Connecting my first backpacking experience to the summits and valleys of my beginning years of teaching. | 2018 |
Sew What? Engineering Fashion in the Classroom | What happens when you ask students to engineer clothing that responds to the world around them? | 2018 |
Raise Your Hand: What’s Teaching Taught You? | This issue, we asked teachers in the Knowles community to write about one thing teaching has taught them. Here are their responses. | 2018 |
Now on Teacher Voice: An Inquiry into Good Teaching | In this episode of Teacher Voice: The Podcast, Knowles Fellows share their thinking around good teaching: What can good teaching look like? How can we recognize it in ourselves & others? How do we sustain ourselves as we strive to become good—and better—teachers? | 2018 |