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The story of my name begins here: My parents were expecting to be having a baby boy, until February 11, 1994 came around and a baby girl made her grand entrance in to world. She entered the world with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. She was just fine, and her name quickly changed from Bryson the boy to Kelsey for a little girl. My parents were completely shocked because based on my heart rate and other pregnancy symptoms my mom they thought I was a boy. My name is Kelsey Michelle Winkler, and my mom gave me my name. Several months before I was born she was reading an article in Readers Digest about an NFL player who had a daughter named Kelsey; I suppose the name stuck with her. My middle name is Michelle, and my parents agreed upon this name because it is also my mom’s middle name. Naturally my nickname is Kels, but some close to me also call me Keck. When I was little I called myself Kecky. Kelsey originated as an Irish name. It means ‘island of the ships’. The name Kelsey is also a unisex name, that means ‘Brave’. As for my last name, the meaning of Winkler can be defined as a dweller on a corner of land; one who kept a corner shop, especially one that dealt in second-hand items. My last name comes from my Pop, my dads dad. He was born and raised in Hungary but his father came from Sweden. My family identifies our last name as a Swedish name. Winkler is an unusual, one of a kind name, which has given me a lot of attention over the years. Many nicknames I have received because of my last name include, Wink, Winky, and the least favorite Winky Tinky.

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My everyday literacy practices include posting pictures frequently on Instagram, scrolling through my time line on Facebook, and saving pins on Pinterest.

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..continued literacy practices in my everyday life

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Using Pinterest is a literacy I use everyday from planning my wedding, designing my apartment, and getting ideas about activities to use in the classroom with my students.

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This image best represent who I am, based on how I see myself. I see myself as someone despite many struggles, that chooses to stay happy and smiling and loving my dogs.

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Strength on teaching culturally diverse students

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Strength on teaching culturally diverse students

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My strength when teaching culturally diverse students is that I try my best to learn key words from their language to communicate, and I even buy books to bring to school to help better communicate with these culturally diverse students. The students also recognize the efforts I put forth because the students who speak the least amount of English always love me the most. This image represent two silly second grade students who don't speak very good English but always insisted to work in groups with me or do their independent work near me. Despite the language barrier, I'm good at attaining student-teacher relationships with NEP and ELL students.

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Struggles with teaching culturally diverse students

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Struggles with teaching culturally diverse students

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Language barrier. With the NEP students in field I use a book of my first Spanish words to communicate instructions and feed back. I also use Google Translate to relay information to students I have a language barrier with.

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Kelsey
Kind
Eager to teach and learn
Loves using texts to communicate with NEP's
Student advocate
Exceptionally strong at building student- teacher relationships
Youthful teacher
Kelsey

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My favorite literacy experience is from a few weeks ago. I am moving out for the first time and have been given a lot of old, hand me down furniture. I decided to get on Pinterest and learn how to repaint and distress furniture. Pinterest is my favorite form of literacy, because you can read articles about the things that interest you. I read this article called , The Beginner's Guide To Distressing with Chalk Paint. After reading this article I was able to successfully redo my first piece of furniture. This picture represents the article I read that helped me.

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This picture represents the outcome of reading the article about distressing furniture with chalk paint.

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The most important book I read that lead me to have an intellectual and emotional experience was, Night by Elie Wiesel. This book is told from perspective of a Jewish man during the Holocaust. After reading this book I had an emotional experience because I could believe this many people were killed over their Jewish religion. I read this book in high school and since then I enjoy watching documentaries about the Holocaust

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Hard work. Perseverance. Hard work and perseverance is something I believe I have inherited from family, but more specifically from my dad. My dad has struggled off and on his whole life, but he is the hardest working man I know. He has always told me that no matter what you always put forth your best effort and never give up, because eventually it will all pay off. This picture represents the person who taught me what hard work and perseverance is.

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My cultural discomfort is pulling into a gas station where several Hispanic men are standing around. This year I was at a particular gas station like this, and when I got back into my car, I was approached by these men while they circled my car slurring degrading comments to myself. This picture represents the gas station at which the altercation took place, and where my cultural discomfort began.

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My cultural bias is stereotyping the way people talk. If I hear someone talking in Ebonics I assume they are less educated, If I hear someone talking really southern I assume they are "redneck", and If I hear someone talking very "proper" I assume they have a lot of money and are snobby. This picture represents a group of diverse students that all speak English in different ways/dialects. These children taught me not to "judge a book by its cover" by not stereotyping they way people talk.

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I'm privileged to teach and learn from a group of kids as awesome as these kids at Graves Elementary. Although I am a white, middle class, woman, I have had to work for everything I have. Teaching and learning from these kids has been a privilege with the way they have impacted my life and the way they have changed the way I think about some things.

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My engagement ring is an important object to me because it represents love and my relationship. This image represents a new, exciting stage in my life that will be full of the good, bad, and adventure.

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My sense of humor and ability to make myself (lol) and others smile and laugh. This picture represents my ability to make fun of myself and laugh because I thought this was going to be such a great selfie is my snorkeling gear.

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This image captures how my silly side can bring others happiness. This picture was taken on the playground with my sweet second graders.

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This image captures a typical day in class with Stacey Lackey. We are always laughing and being silly.