Author Archives: julie mendgen

Hey everyone, here is a possible (and room to grow) text set based around The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway. I’ve included an additional resource #NotYourPrincess which looks amazing! I forgot I had brought it home for reading from our … Continue reading →

Hey Everyone, Here are the slides for The Unnatural and Accidental Women presentation. Thanks for the support and discussion around this challenging text! Cheerio!

Just wanted to point out the extra reading “Counter-Storytelling through Graphic Life Writing” by Elizabeth Marshall has some excellent resources. She details 3 picture book/children’s stories: Texts include Duncan Tonatiuh’s (2014) biography of Sylvia Mendez and her family in Separate Is … Continue reading →

Glad to be introduced to some new resources today and ideas about how to use them, especially the close reading exercise x 7 approach discussed for use with Voices in the Past. Charting out what you notice with each reading … Continue reading →

Hey all, just passing on another assessment tool that I find very helpful: the single-point rubric (see cult of pedagogy and edutopia articles). You create a column of expectations only in the middle column which sits around a “meets expectations” … Continue reading →

I was thinking about the categorization of inclusive LGTBQ curriculum scale as proposed by Michelle Page in the Teaching in the Cracks article. Although I felt that these categories included a bit of judgment as to where a teacher was … Continue reading →

Here is my go at playing with the idea of sketch quotes to match the Courageous Voices article. It quickly became enjoyable and the technique is effective for zeroing in on key points and big ideas, although it took a little … Continue reading →