Megan Griffin
Jane Eyre Pilgrimage, Part I: Or, How Kate Bush is Preparing Me for This School Year
In May 2022, I took the personal and professional development trip of a lifetime: a Jane Eyre pilgrimage. It was a weeklong reading,...
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Jessica Bailey
- Jun 23
- 9 min
Highway to the Resting Zone: Teachers and the Summer Slowdown
In an attempt to kick off the summer right, my husband and I went on a double date with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law to see...
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Olivia Ide and Megan Griffin
- May 27
- 9 min
Getting into Some Good Trouble: Student Activism and Well-Being
This week began with the joy that accompanies the final days of a school year for both students and teachers: those sweet series of...
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Biz Kechejian
- May 9
- 5 min
Reading to Students as a Loving Practice
Unrelenting tears dripped onto my open book as I cackled with laughter, surrounded by freshmen in a circle on the floor, consumed by the...
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Kate Schenck
- May 2
- 6 min
Longing in Translation: How a Mandarin Teacher is Influencing my English Classroom
This month, while reading Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain, I came across a quote in her opening chapter...
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Megan Griffin
- Apr 25
- 11 min
Poems Taught and Remembered
In celebration of National Poetry Month, we extended an invitation to our fellow teachers in the English, World Languages, and Social...
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Megan Griffin
- Apr 11
- 8 min
What Can Poetry Offer to Us?: Teaching Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Oceanic
There’s a moment in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre where the protagonist Jane, shifting into the self-assured voice of an Anglican...
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Elizabeth Smith
- Apr 4
- 4 min
The Starbucks Effect: The Customization of Education
Two years ago during the pandemic lock-down, I familiarized myself with food delivery apps such as DoorDash and Grubhub. I delighted in...
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Caitlin Rathe
- Mar 28
- 6 min
Student Teach-Ins: Centering Student Voices by Letting Go in the (History) Classroom
I’m a first-year high school history teacher trying to survive what was supposed to be a post-COVID year that is very much still weird....
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Kyle B. Lee
- Mar 7
- 5 min
The Joy of Change and Discovery: Introducing Octavia E. Butler to a New Generation
In a binge-watch society, television shows and film franchises typically take on most of the public conversation in pop culture. When I...
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Kate Schenck
- Feb 28
- 3 min
Beyond Black History Month
This week my school’s African American Awareness (AAA) Club and Office of Community and Inclusion offered a special workshop on Black...
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Rachel Davies, Megan Griffin, and Kate Schenck
- Feb 21
- 8 min
On Stories Celebrating Black Joy and Love
We are always reading on the side here at Her Voice at the Table, and this week we want to spotlight some of our favorite texts about...
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Kate Schenck
- Feb 14
- 10 min
The Healing Power of Teacher Success
Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each other’s eyes or not, about to speak or speaking All about us is...
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Biz Kechejian
- Jan 24
- 5 min
Echoes of Learning
In Ovid’s Metamorphosis, we learn the origin story of echoes (alongside a cautionary tale of falling in love with a narcissist). The gist...
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Megan Griffin, Kate Schenck, Rachel Davies, and Biz Kechejian
- Jan 17
- 10 min
Dreams Deferred: Student Voices Respond to A Raisin in the Sun
In our English III: American Voices class, we frame writing as a way to enter the public conversation, a conversation that began...
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Megan Griffin
- Jan 10
- 8 min
A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Jane Eyre and Hope as a Sacred Practice
This past Monday as part of my school’s in-service, we virtually hosted Dr. Lisa Damour, a psychologist and New York Times best-selling...
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Kate Schenck
- Dec 31, 2021
- 4 min
One Year At The Table
One year ago today, I hunched over my laptop at my kitchen table with my friend and colleague Jessica Bailey, and we took the first baby...
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Jessica Bailey
- Dec 27, 2021
- 6 min
Finding My Direction in the Busiest of Teaching Seasons
My students and colleagues are often surprised to learn that I went to university as a theatre major and, ultimately, graduated with a...
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Rachel Davies
- Dec 13, 2021
- 6 min
The Ridiculous Joy of Teenage Girls (or How I was Radicalized into the Harry Styles Fandom)
Sometimes it is odd teaching at the same all-girls high school I attended. It is important to note at no point in high school was I a...
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Renee Chevallier
- Nov 15, 2021
- 4 min
Reflections on a Reading Life
Unsurprisingly for someone who ultimately became a librarian, I have always loved to read. Growing up, it was not uncommon to find me...
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