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Having students connect to the earth and just giving back to nature, using their hands as mechanisms of restoration and earth healing

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I see the world from a math perspective. I tend to reason perceive items from mixed methods approaches. There are quantitative items that tend to be technical arithmetic with qualitative discussion to explain what the arithmetic represents. From the lesson, you can see key features of the vertex, axis of symmetry, and vertex. However, combining the mixed methods perspective students are then able to apply meaning behind the abstract concepts.

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-Journal Family Traditions - mine is making homemade strawberry jam with our berries from the berry farm
-They would share their family traditions, bring recipes, and even make it in the classroom
-Then we would bring some from home and share it together
-write an essay of how it all came together
-Tie into informative essay, or persuasive essay about why traditions are important or not

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I'm not a teacher currently however, I would love to see a lesson on The spiritual egg cleanse with roots in indigenous Mesoamerican culture (limpía) and the science behind it like buoyancy

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Students having the opportunity to work through math when dividing feed for animals / When reading Strega Nona, making pasta using ingredients from the chickens/garden.

Being able to going outside, get dirty, and be part of knowledge outside of "what they are supposed to learn" in academia

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Epistemologies: Constructivism and Inquiry. Learning is a social and active process. We learn by doing and learning is based in making connections to prior experiences

In groups, students go through the Engineering Design Process to create a prototype roller coaster and test it with marbles. As the facilitator, I do not instruct how the roller coaster should look and provide extra support materials to the students who ask for it. Groups work together to design their roller coaster and represent it in a way that makes sense to them. Students construct their own knowledge about gravity and friction during this process

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Picture books are a great way to tie multiple lessons together. This book is actually about the phases of the moon and is the authors homage to her favorite Asian holiday the Autumn moon Festival.

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As an educator who incorporates literacy learning into all student learning experiences, my epistemologies are rooted in the power of reading and language as a foundation for building knowledge. Incorporating books and oral stories that engage learners in questioning and wonderings about the world is what teaching and learning is all about!

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I teach all core subjects but I feel like social studies could definitely use some work.  Recently, I have been teaching the students about the community and natural resource being made into man made products.  We discussed and it was a targeted TEK for students to understand how the man made product helps us and makes our everyday lives better but what about natural/medicinal aspect of nature and natural resources as they are.  Does everything have to be tainted?

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Speaking of plants... I love bonsai trees. It is the Japanese art of growing miniature trees.  A bonsai tree can be any type of tree. At the National Arboretum they have tiny Redwood trees (more commonly known for being massive). A bonsai tree is grown from a seed and nurtured and carefully pruned for hundreds of years.  There is not one right way to nurture a tree. With love and support it can be a massive tree, or with different love and support it can be beautiful in a unique way. I think this idea is important for students. So often society want students to progress a specific way. There is more than one right way to grow.

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In my classroom for each period we start with a journal "Do Now" that changes. I am very big on reflection and setting goals, so at the beginning of each month I have students reflect on what they want to change academically and in their own personal lives from the previous month. It helps them practice their writing skills and also learning to identify behaviors and patterns they have to promote self-growth at such a hard age (8th graders). They have the chance to set goals and have a journal to look back on the progress and setbacks from the school year.

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I use essays in my class to help support the English Department and get the kids writing. However, they have a lot of challenges with how to create one.

I start with the why... ALWAYS start with the why
You are writing an Informative Essay on your subject. The reason for it is to inform other people about your topic so they can learn from you and contribute to the community.

Then I explain the mechanics/formatting, and  the reasoning behind it...
You will tell your story about *topic* in five parts. In the beginning you need to give hints to the parts that will be coming so people will listen. In the next three parts, you tell each of the small stories that you hinted at, teaching the lessons or telling the legends. In the last part, you remind them of the hints to make the learning permanent. Some people need to be told three times to remember and we will do that for them.

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I tell many oral stories with my students, whether it be to redirect behavior, history, or, more recently, science. When I teach anything with Science, I try to find some Indigenous story that explains the their reasoning of an event, for instance the creation of a tornado.

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This is a really hard assignment for me to approach. In the history of medicine, there's been a well-known schism between "sound medicine" and what we would classify as "quackery." More formally, there exist two branches of medicine—allopathic and homeopathic medicine. Allopathic medicine is the medicine that we think of when we go to a hospital or visit a doctor's office. A patient presents with a certain symptom or set of symptoms, and the provider creates an action plan to counteract and eliminate the pathology. For example, a patient with high blood pressure is given antihypertensives to lower the blood pressure. Homeopathic medicine, on the other hand, is very culturally-specific and rooted in folklore and tradition rather than natural science. For instance, if a patient had a fever, a practitioner of homeopathy might make them stand outside in the heat or apply a warm cloth to their head. The action plan, then, is related to mimicking the symptom rather than counteracting it. Homeopathy is largely eschewed in the medical community.

For this reason, I think modern medicine remains stagnant in becoming culturally relevant. There is a resistance to change the ways things flow and what science has proven to be clinically effective.

Nonetheless, I think there is wiggle room for creating such opportunities. Let's say I have a patient from India who I just  diagnosed with prediabetes. Indian cuisine is known highly caloric and sugary. An inconsiderate physician may just give a meal plan created by some American organization to the patient and tell them to follow these dietary changes. However, that is disrespectful to the fact that diet and food can be vital, even sacred, to that person's culture. In this case, I would educate myself of the foods of India and find alternative methods for ensuring that the patient lowers their sugary and hypercholesterimic intake while still being able to enjoy the foods that are vital to their essence.

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World Geography 9th grade + Dual Language

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World Geography 9th grade + Dual Language

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Unit 7 of World Geography covers Economics. Recently I had my students watch a series of clips from a documentary of a group of college students traveling to Guatemala to try to "live one dollar a day". Some of the experiences from these guys were portrayed to be these outlandish, never before seen, extremely bad conditions situations and my students just sat there watching like.... That's our realities... I remember there was a scene where the college students had to live off of eating rice and beans and my kids were saying how that is their usual home meals and I related to that too. I think for next year I would show the same videos but we would talk about how these experiences could be seen as so out there meanwhile for us it's pretty normal or at least not as extreme as it was portrayed.

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I teach physical and human geography every day, so we begin each class with Mindful Moment / Minute.

In the Mindful Minute we give gratitude to the sun, wind, and water. Sometimes we call on our ancestors for strength to get through the school day, big test, or whatever challenges we are having.

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Yay!!!! One of the research projects that my colleague and I worked on was a developing artwork that was reflective of their lived experiences as well as their cultural backgrounds. As a result, we received variations of how students defined culture and what they "know" to be identity. Understanding identity, transmission of knowledge and cultural representation is something that I am practicing with my students on a daily basis. I think this further supports my beliefs of knowing and being or maybe the better word would be "existing" in the world. Art lesson are reflective of identity, testimonies, reflection and social awareness. I think this also intersects with how I view art as being a multisensory experience one can have with knowledge. This lesson would include developing a piece of artwork that is reflective of knowing who one is as an artist, as a human and as an activist.