Where Do We Go From Here? | Trying to figure out how, and what, to teach in a pandemic. | 2021 |
Why I Love Story Tables | “I’m good at math. You can ask Ms. Helft.” | 2020 |
Teaching Climate Science and Resilience with Computer Simulations | Computer simulations are a powerful method for students to explore and understand how their actions can help mitigate the effects of climate change. | 2020 |
Lessons in Language | A look at language use in my science classroom through an inquiry lens. | 2020 |
Professional Development: Collaboratively Prototyping Science Classroom Tasks | We self-organized a professional development experience to increase our skills in integrating engineering design and computational thinking tasks into our physics classrooms. | 2018 |
Transforming Collaborative Culture through Vulnerable Acts of Everyday Leadership | When my school colleagues and I started sharing our vulnerable moments, our departmental culture transformed. | 2018 |
From Public School to Homeschool | Experiences in my previous teaching position inform and strengthen my current work as a homeschooling parent. | 2018 |
Difficult Conversations in Support of LGBTQ+ Students | Difficult, uncomfortable conversations improved school culture for LBGTQ+ youth after our newly-developed gay-straight alliance faced community opposition. | 2018 |
Progressing Towards Mastery: Reflections on Implementing a Proficiency-Based Grading System | How would implementing proficiency-based grading shift our teaching practice? | 2018 |
The “Invisible Knapsack”: Rip it open. Spend it down. | I used to think of my whiteness as a burden. Now I realize it is an account that I can cash in to weaken systems of unearned power in my classroom and beyond. | 2018 |