Rachel Davies, Megan Griffin, and Kate Schenck
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, 202210 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 202210 min read
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, 20228 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20218 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20218 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20218 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 202111 min read
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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