reThink ELA #013: Empowering Student Interests in the Secondary Classroom

03/08/21 • 0 min

One of the most important things teachers can do is impact students’ lives by creating spaces for them to discover their passions and use their voices. This is integral for student success—especially for students who struggle in the confining spaces many schools create. My guest, despite successful leadership in and out of the classroom, found [...]

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[prettyfilelink size=”115 KB” src=”https://www.rethinkela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Ep12-Hugh-Hunter.pdf” type=”pdf”]Ep12-Hugh Hunter Transcript[/prettyfilelink] Knowing their reading audience helps authors to craft their books and create their story arcs. Understanding the pain points of their audience and the problems they struggle with the most helps to identify which topics should be included in the manuscript. Similarly, teachers need to know their students [...]

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reThink ELA #014: How To Complicate The Single Story In The Literary Canon

It’s been a minute (as our students would say) since I’ve published an episode of this podcast, but recent changes in my career have afforded me more time and fortitude to confront these issues directly. In this episode, I am honored to interview Dani Nagel-O'Rourke who is the English department chair at an Oklahoma suburban [...]