From a teacher friend. TLDR; even imperfect but heartfelt actions of compassion can effect your students in ways you may never know. The day after the Capitol Riots, I was sitting in my classroom before school, and I got a phone call from another math teacher. He wanted to know what I was going to …
As anyone who knows me for five minutes knows, dance is a big part of my life. But rarely does it leak into my professional life! Last week I has the pleasure of co-facilitating a workshop for 20 dance teachers on how to support youth-created dance videos for KQED Education. Specifically, my colleague Teresa and …
I’m committed to ensuring that educators of color feel prepared to teach critical media literacy skills to their students. To support this goal, I’m organizing a new cohort of teachers of color to work toward the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification by KQED. To kick off the cohort, I’m hosting an intro webinar on February …
I’m so excited to lead a hands-on workshop at the virtual Fall CUE conference on Monday, October 26. The subject of our session is: “Lies, Damn Lies and Deepfakes: Teaching Media Analysis to All Grades”. It’s going to be a fun, hands-on meetup with teachers, where I will get them analyzing and evaluating media, spotting …
I mean it’s not ALWAYS like this. But yeah….
Tomorrow, Wednesday September 2, I’m excited to lead an online info session for teachers on the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification by KQED. I’ll be talking about why media literacy is so important for all teachers to be including in their lessons and how the PBS Certification can help them best integrate this subject into …
I wrote this piece for the KQED Education blog, focused on key learnings from seven of our newest PBS certified media literacy educators. I’m so proud of what these master teachers are doing around the US to support quality media education for young people. There’s no magic wand that we can wave to make remote …
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! Here’s a video I made, 35 years later, where I finally got around to thanking some teachers who made a difference in my life in middle school. Don’t be like me. Thank your favorite teachers today!
[Cross-posted from the KQED Education Blog] The outbreak of COVID-19 (also called the “novel coronavirus”) is likely to be front-of-mind for you and your students right now. In this rapidly evolving situation, lots of information, misinformation, and rumor have been circulating on social media and the news, which your students may be struggling to sort …
As we close out 2019, I am thinking of all the cool stuff the KQED Education team accomplished over the year. There’s a lot I could mention from across our department, but here I will just focus on projects that I was personally involved in. So here are some of my personal highlights from 2019 …