Spring 2018 - Knowles Teacher Initiative

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

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.

The issue in your hands or on your screen contains 10 pieces of thoughtful storytelling from 14 contributors.
This issue’s Raise Your Hand feature alone has 18 contributors! Make sure you read their reflections about what teaching has taught them.
We’ve started Teacher Voice: The Podcast, in which producer and Kaleidoscope Associate Editor Brittany Franckowiak and her guests have explored stories from the journal in more detail.

In This Issue

Spring 2018

Raise Your Hand: What’s Teaching Taught You?

Mary Chin

Kristin Mongelli

Beverly Stuckwisch

Allie Webb

Sarah Spector

Emma Vierheller

Lyudmila Shemyakina

Chris Lipski

Sarah Berger

Kimberly Lintker

Andrew Wild

Daniel Voss

Anthony Stetzenmeyer

Heather Buskirk

Ben Graves

Erin Oakley

Katrina Cornell

This issue, we asked teachers in the Knowles community to write about one thing teaching has taught them. Here are their responses.

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Spring 2018

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?

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Spring 2018

I Need a Minute: Teaching and Learning as Introverts in an Extroverted Culture

Cassie Barker

Adam Quaal

Small shifts can improve the social experiences of teaching and learning for all.

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Spring 2018

Summits and Valleys

Rebecca Guarino

Connecting my first backpacking experience to the summits and valleys of my beginning years of teaching.

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