Developing compassion, developing writers. Plus, a call to ditch the deficit lens as we embark on a new school year! The ROOTED Weekly is out!
Stephen Hebert
Reader. Writer. Texan. Mystic? Teacher. Theologian. Mindfulness Wonk. Mystic? Buddhiscopalian. Houstonian. Human too. Upper School English teacher and DEIJ pracitioner at an independent K-12.
Templates, Recipes, and Formulas: Tasks That LOOK Like Writing
When a student asks how many paragraphs or how many pages or how many quotes their piece needs, then you know that student isn’t writing...yet.
ROOTED Weekly: 12 September 2020
Doing what's necessary and finding what's essential. Plus, a rather apocalyptic look at American higher education! The ROOTED Weekly is out!
Five Things: What’s essential in your curriculum?
What's essential in your class? If you could teach just five things this year, what would they be?
ROOTED Weekly: 5 September 2020
New, hybrid learning environments. Robot grading. Support for teenagers in a pandemic. Rooted action. Students agency. A lot packed in this week!
ROOTED Weekly: 29 August 2020
Latest posts, news, and notes! Education, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Thoughtful Pedagogy.
Do Not Hurry; Do Not Rest
We cannot rush into a new school year, and, yet, we also cannot rest. We constantly work to make things a little better today than they were the day before.
ROOTED Weekly: 22 August 2020
Latest posts, news, and notes! Education, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Thoughtful Pedagogy.
The Courage to Begin Again
We feel displaced, even in our own homes and classrooms. But our terrain has changed. (And it’s not going to change back anytime soon.) Where do we start?