Kate Schenck
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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Megan Griffin
- Nov 8, 2021
- 8 min
Megan's Awakening and The Poet X
I’ll let you in on a not-so-secret secret. Selecting texts for an English curriculum is hard. My colleagues and I spend a good chunk of...
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Elizabeth Smith
- Nov 1, 2021
- 4 min
Celebrating the Late Bloomer
I recently read an article about children as young as seven-years-old who are starting businesses and nonprofits. While their efforts are...
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Kate Schenck
- Oct 18, 2021
- 4 min
Building Our Empathy Through the Research Process
My juniors and I are reading The Great Gatsby, and I was again struck by Nick Carraway’s comment that “life is much more successfully...
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Kyle B. Lee
- Sep 27, 2021
- 8 min
A Social Contract for Well-Being
When writing dialogue for fiction, I have found a useful practice is to simply open one’s ears. This is not the same as active...
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Kayla Brown
- Sep 20, 2021
- 6 min
Beyond the Classroom: Supporting Student Well-Being as the Dean of Students
I have been working in education for almost seventeen years now, and eight years ago, I became the Dean of Students at an all-girls...
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Allison Hibbitt
- Sep 13, 2021
- 8 min
Empowering Writers Through Graphs and Reflection
We teachers were all students at some point, and I like to think that I remember quite well what it was like. Nevertheless, sometimes it...
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Jessica Bailey
- Aug 29, 2021
- 6 min
Making Up for Lost Time: Cultivating Belonging as the Global Pandemic Presses On
As my colleagues and I wrapped up a week and a half of faculty in-service in preparation for this new school year, I found myself sifting...
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Kate Schenck
- Aug 23, 2021
- 4 min
Understanding Identity as Student Well-Being
This year I am lucky to teach freshmen again. Working at an all-girls high school, I am honored to join them on the first steps of their...
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Megan Griffin
- Aug 16, 2021
- 5 min
The Promise of Writing, Revisited
During the week Simone Biles chose her mental health over the pursuit of Olympic gold, I was revisiting two novels I had assigned my...
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Mary Beth Kemp
- Jul 26, 2021
- 5 min
Finding Peace in Imperfection
Of all the spaces I have occupied in my life, a college campus has been one of the most chaotic and unpredictable. But it has also been...
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Kate Schenck
- Jul 9, 2021
- 11 min
Living the Questions
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. -- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Pulling my car out of the...
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Pat Mendina
- Jun 10, 2021
- 6 min
On Decades of Teaching the Female Voice
When I first began teaching at a Catholic all-girls private school in the mid 80’s after seven years in public school, I thought that I...
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Rachel Davies
- Jun 7, 2021
- 6 min
Speaking and Serving: Citizen Rhetor Symposium
As an alum of the school where I now teach, I cannot remember a day we were not reminded of the school motto: Serviam--I will serve. We...
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Jessica Bailey
- May 31, 2021
- 12 min
No More Apologies: Empowering Her Voice in Classroom Discussion
On a particularly nondescript day, a day like most others in the middle of the work week, I walked into our faculty’s communal office...
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Katelyn Hayes
- May 23, 2021
- 10 min
Her Mathematical Voice: Creating Authentic Math Assessments to Deepen Understanding
In this post by math teacher Katelyn Hayes, she continues the conversation about the intersections of math, writing, and student...
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Kate Schenck
- May 16, 2021
- 6 min
Racial Literacy as Student Well-Being
Notes on this reflection: I am not a mental health professional and my references to “well-being” competencies are based on general...
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