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This post was originally published on Edsurge in collaboration with Tom Murray. On December 10, 2015, phase two of the Future Ready Initiative, led by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the US Department of Education, was kicked off at the White House. To date, over 2,000 superintendents have signed the Future Ready District Pledge. … Continue reading 5 Issues Every ‘Future Ready’ School Leader Must Address
This post was originally published on Edutopia. It's the day that my first-year college students are sharing the outlines/rough drafts of their final essays with their peers. As I walk around the classroom, a few students put their hands up for me to take a look at their work and give feedback. I look at … Continue reading Strategies to Help Struggling Writers
Blogging in the beginning was a reflective tool, one to share thoughts and ideas while teaching, outside the classroom, or in a conversation. Many see blogging in this way, as a self-reflective tool. Instinctually, blogging is a self-centred act. It usually centres around the self and attempts to amplify the voice of the writer. Here's … Continue reading Blogging as a self-reflective tool is overrated!
“My response to racism is anger. I have lived with that anger, ignoring it, feeding upon it, learning to use it before it laid my visions to waste, for most of my life. Once I did it in silence, afraid of the weight. My fear of anger taught me nothing. Your fear of that anger … Continue reading Stop Tone-Policing
Being a woman teacher has had its many challenges for me, but the great thing about these challenges is that I always had a strategy to deal with them. That is not to say that women should learn to deal with these challenges as a normal part of teaching. In fact, I hope by discussing … Continue reading Challenges Faced By Women Teachers & Ways To Respond To Them
If you’re a follower of this blog, you know that I shared two interviews this past week.
An Interview with Shelly Terrell
An Interview with Rusul Alrubail
The back to back timing wasn’t planned. I’m an admirer of what both ladies do and how they manage their online presence and resources. I read their blogs and interact on Twitter when it’s appropriate. A while back, I had been planning to do some interviews and sent a request to both of them.
I was so glad that they both said yes.
Now, I have a technique for interviewing that I think respects their commitments to other things and let them do the interview when they have the time. So, it was quite a surprise when they both said, on the same day, that they were finished. Rusul had completed hers first so I posted hers on one day and Shelly’s on the…
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Being an English Language Learner in a mainstream classroom can be a very overwhelming experience for the student. Often, my English Language Learners need extra help when it comes to reading non-fiction articles in the class. Modifying the reading assignment is the first step, but there are times when it’s hard to modify an assignment … Continue reading Strategies for Reading Non-Fiction with ELL
My interview with Doug Peterson. On HigherEd, #EduColor & more!
Doug: Thanks for agreeing to do this interview, Rusul. You’re another person that I’ve never met in person so I’ll skip my normal first question. We met on Twitter, right?
Rusul: Indeed we did. You started following me through a list of Ontario Educators.
Doug: OK, confession time here. I love your writing but I suspect that I miss a great deal of it since you publish in many places other than your blog. Where can we find the complete works of Rusul?
Rusul: My own website: www.rusulalrubail.com Actually, I will be launching a new website soon, hopefully with the same address, and I am really looking forward to it! I try to cross post everything on my personal website, but often forget or don’t have the time. I also write on Medium.com, Edutopia, Teaching Tolerance, PBSNewshour, and Education Week.
Doug: One of my favourite posts appeared over the summer…
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Blogging to me is an art form, it cannot be prescribed. There is no right or wrong formula when it comes to blogging, and that is the first step that a beginner blogger should realize to maintain its aesthetic feel of authenticity, subjectivity, and stream of consciousness. However, there are a few things that I … Continue reading Blogging Tips 101: A beginner’s guide
This interview was originally published on Medium's Bright: Rusul Alrubail, The Writing Project, Toronto The art of the essay Not all exits from the classroom are expected, or desired. Rusul Alrubail, 29, was an English composition and literature teacher at Toronto’s Seneca College for five years when she and her contract faculty colleagues were abruptly … Continue reading What Do Teachers Do After Saying Goodbye to the Classroom?
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