Teaching, (re)searching and living as a working draft.
My second day as a teacher was a Tuesday morning. I remember it really clearly. I just started as a 7th grade math/science teacher in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Just ten days earlier, I had packed all of my belongings up and moved from Houston, Texas with my new boyfriend, Jason (whom I now just call …
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For those who don't know: I am a part of a fantasy football team, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (We'll talk more about how there are now three women in the league but the name hasn't changed so that might be a later post). My dear friend Suzie won two years ago and my husband …
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Yesterday and today news surfaced that a software engineer at Google wrote a 3,300 word memo outlining why there is really no bias in the workplace that is against women. The author claims that the real truth is that women are just not equipped to handle high-stress jobs (From the source: Women suffer from …
Congrats! You’ve made it to the fourth and final right of the learner! Hooray! Hopefully with the other three RotL (Confused, Mistake, SpeakListenBeHeard), you’ve thought about how being confused, claiming a mistake (and revising your thinking), and knowing that you can speak, listen, and be heard are all RIGHTS that we need to promote in …
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Let's just take a second to say: YOU'RE STILL HERE?! OMG! YOU HAVEN'T GOTTEN BORED WITH ME YET? Awwwww [hug emoji] You're too kind. Although this blog isn't really about whether like me or not, but it does make me feel honored that you're back to at least read about the RotL. But then again, …
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Welcome back! Glad that you've decided to stick around for the Second Rights of the Learner: The Right to Claim a Mistake and Revise Your Thinking. This right is one that I've struggled with how to frame over the past year because my thinking has evolved and I'll briefly go into that here just for …
Hopefully you've already read the first two posts (Post1 Post2) about the Rights of the Learner because now we're unpacking each one. Think back to a moment when you were sitting in a math classroom and you thought to yourself "WHAT THE WHAT IS GOING ON???"Â The professor/instructor/tutor is saying or writing something on the …
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It was in my process of learning to teach elementary math methods that I also learned about the Rights of the Learner. Olga Torres, a well-known and respected bilingual elementary teacher and teacher educator in Arizona, wanted to create a space for her third grade students to feel safe when learning math, but she needed …
Today, I am going to briefly write about the Rights of the Learner (RotL) and how it relates to teaching and learning mathematics, specifically with respect to divergent formative assessments. But first, you might need to know a little more about how I came to learn about the RotL from a special teacher named Ms. …
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Howdy everyone! This is my first post for the blog Embracing Life with Major Revisions. For those who aren't in academia, professors at all ranks don't just teach. Quite the contrary. They teach, but they also have to do the following given varying levels of time and effort: Serve on committees Create committees for others …
Embracing Life With Major Revisions 
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