Title I Archives - (re)Birth of a Teacher

When You’re the Minority in Your Classroom

07/15/2019 by admin Leave a Comment

With only 2 weeks left until the start of the 2019-20 school year, I’m still gathering resources (mainly picture books) to share with my students. After school ended, I spent 2 days in a Culturally & Historically Responsive Literacy training at Georgia State with Dr. Gholdy Muhammad. To say the training was transformative would be … [Read more…]

In Defense of Summer Work Packets

06/18/2019 by admin Leave a Comment

I wanted to write this post during the last week of school, but I’ll be completely honest: I was too tired. Once school officially ended, I kept telling myself “Tomorrow”. Again: I didn’t get around to it. Then, last week, one of those #edugurus tweeted that summer work packets were a waste of time. Needless … [Read more…]