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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...

Megan Griffin
Apr 25, 202211 min read
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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...

Megan Griffin
Apr 11, 20228 min read
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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...

Elizabeth Smith
Apr 4, 20224 min read
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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....

Caitlin Rathe
Mar 28, 20226 min read
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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...

Kyle B. Lee
Mar 7, 20225 min read
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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...

Kate Schenck
Feb 28, 20223 min read
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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...

Rachel Davies, Megan Griffin, and Kate Schenck
Feb 21, 20228 min read
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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...

Kate Schenck
Feb 14, 202210 min read
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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...

Biz Kechejian
Jan 24, 20225 min read
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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...
Megan Griffin, Kate Schenck, Rachel Davies, and Biz Kechejian
Jan 17, 202210 min read
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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...

Megan Griffin
Jan 10, 20228 min read
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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...

Kate Schenck
Dec 31, 20214 min read
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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...

Jessica Bailey
Dec 27, 20216 min read
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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...

Rachel Davies
Dec 13, 20216 min read
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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...

Renee Chevallier
Nov 15, 20214 min read
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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...

Megan Griffin
Nov 8, 20218 min read
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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...

Elizabeth Smith
Nov 1, 20214 min read
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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...

Kate Schenck
Oct 18, 20214 min read
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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...

Kyle B. Lee
Sep 27, 20218 min read
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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...

Kayla Brown
Sep 20, 20216 min read
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