by transcendingpedagogy | Jan 18, 2022 | Leading for Literacy
Today I submitted a proposal for a convention workshop. The proposal is based on a paradigm of curiosity, play and practice, invention and experimentation, and I worked on it with two wonderful colleagues. It was itself an exercise in professional...
by transcendingpedagogy | Jan 10, 2022 | Leading for Literacy
This weekend I attended an online workshop put on by some wonderfully thoughtful folks with whom I serve on the New York State English Council (NYSEC) board. NYSEC is our state affiliate of NCTE. Our – I am the current president – professional learning...
by transcendingpedagogy | Jan 5, 2022 | Leading for Literacy
My husband – a teacher – read me an article today that I found so disturbing, and yet, if I think about it, so predictable. Except I manage always to be shocked. The article named a bill being proposed in the state of Florida that would require teachers to...
by transcendingpedagogy | Jan 2, 2022 | Leading for Literacy
I often think of January 2nd as a start date. The start date. The date new intentions are implemented, new dreams of yesterday are now beginning to manifest themselves into actions, movements, shifts. Today is the day I lay out my hopes, my thoughts, let them shift...
by transcendingpedagogy | Feb 3, 2021 | Leading for Literacy
Aesthetic Force, defined: quite literally, the power of art to move you. Inclusive of moving your mind, your body, your thinking, your opinion, your policy, your perspective, your reception, your comprehension. To move one’s comprehension is to move their being. Their...
