

Growing as an educator
Greetings from a teacher candidate who is all done her requirements for her Bachelor of Ed, but who doesn't feel like the finality of...


Lessons from Phys Ed, a Decade After I Quit Taking It
This post originally appeared on my other blogging home, Sports Bra Diaries. You can see it there, and check out some of the other things...


Leaving my comfort zone
I'm sure we've all seen the image below, or one like it. While I would like to say leaving my comfort zone comes naturally to me, I have...


Tuesdays are for learning: A trip to the observatory
Tuesday nights are usually pretty low-key. There are cheap movies to be seen, sure, but in general not much is going on. Last night,...


A little reflection goes along way
While the courses I have taken at Althouse as part of my teacher education program have been diverse, each of them has incorporated an...


Taking time for creativity: It's always worth it
Last week, three of my fellow teacher candidates and I took the floor in our Multiliteracies classroom to present our thoughts on putting...


The adventure begins: Teaching as an exploration
If you were to pull out a dictionary and flip to the entry for “adventure,” I’d be over here with a definition I pulled from a dictionary...


To teach, we must continue to learn
This post is a reflection I wrote for Math + Code Zine after visiting a grade 4/5 classroom with two of my fellow teacher candidates from...


Incorporating Multiliteracies: An opportunity for powerful teaching
As a STEM educator, I am familiar with the ways in which technology is an important element of our lives today, and I am amazed at the...