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 |
Call and Response: New Ideas for Your Teaching | This past summer, we asked teachers in the Knowles community to tell us: “What’s one thing you are going to try differently in your teaching this upcoming year?” Here are their responses. | 2018 |
From the Editors’ Desk: What is “Normal?” | Reconsidering our ideas of what teaching “should be” and what it can be. | 2018 |
Now on Teacher Voice: Process, Process, Process | In this episode of Teacher Voice: The Podcast, Knowles Fellows discuss the crucial nature of collaborators in writing impactful stories. Join Kaleidoscope staff members as they explore the impact of a published article and discuss how writing can be an act of leadership. | 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 |
Summits and Valleys | Connecting my first backpacking experience to the summits and valleys of my beginning years of teaching. | 2018 |