Spring 2018
Kaleidoscope: Educator Voices & Perspectives
Welcome to the Spring 2018 issue of Kaleidoscope: Educator Voices and Perspectives. In this issue, we explore how teachers’ and learners’ identities and perspectives influence their experiences in school.
From the Editors’ Desk
Celebrating the Journey
As all teachers know, it’s important to sit back and take stock of what’s happening in your professional life. We’ve been doing similar surveying of Kaleidoscope and are excited to share with you the incredible growth we’ve done this academic year.
In This Issue
Being More Than the Violence Around Us
A teacher at a school affected by a mass shooting reflects on how we respond to violence.
Raise Your Hand: What’s Teaching Taught You?
This issue, we asked teachers in the Knowles community to write about one thing teaching has taught them. Here are their responses.
Now on Teacher Voice: An Inquiry into Good Teaching
In this episode of Teacher Voice: The Podcast, Knowles Fellows share their thinking around good teaching: What can good teaching look like? How can we recognize it in ourselves & others? How do we sustain ourselves as we strive to become good—and better—teachers?
I Need a Minute: Teaching and Learning as Introverts in an Extroverted Culture
Small shifts can improve the social experiences of teaching and learning for all.
Summits and Valleys
Connecting my first backpacking experience to the summits and valleys of my beginning years of teaching.
Sew What? Engineering Fashion in the Classroom
What happens when you ask students to engineer clothing that responds to the world around them?
Professional Development: Yosemite Field Institute
A short course for science teachers at Yosemite National Park changed how three Fellows use outdoor education in their classrooms.
Sparking Change: Equity Initiatives in a Liberal Arts Charter School
Working with students and colleagues at a classical school to improve school-wide culture and address systematic inequalities.
Finding Sustainability, Joy, and Connection in Teaching Through Mindfulness and Self-Compassion
Documenting my learning journey and what it’s meant for my teaching practice.
Moving Beyond Dropbox: Designing Powerfully Shareable Curriculum Materials
How curriculum materials we share can be designed to more powerfully support the work and growth of other teachers.
Weather and Climate: A Story of Teacher Leadership
Comparing real-life weather and climate with lunchtime conversations in the teacher’s lounge.
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About Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope strives to provide readers and writers a public space for discourse and dialogue about the knowledge and expertise of teachers and the complexity of our profession. We believe that teachers are well-positioned to improve education in their classrooms and beyond, and we know the power that storytelling and knowledge sharing can hold in the process of transforming educational outcomes for students.
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