My background and interests lie around simply being a better teacher and leader, but also parent at home. I love to learn; and want to know it all! I find it hard to narrow down my passions to particular areas as I believe in knowledge as a power, and adds perspective to be a better educator… so want to know it all ;) I would say my particular interests lie specifically within play based pedagogies, inquiry based learning, art based inquiry, neurodiversity, and teaching practices that increase student success in and outside the classroom spaces - specifically on literacies. I am currently a grade 5/6 core subject teacher, and will be moving into the principal role next year at my favorite school. My school is tiny - consisting of 8 staff members (including myself), grades k-8, and 60 students. We are a small family with many cross curricular and graded activities unique to our setting, which also turns out a high percentage of post secondary students and valedictorians. (Brag moment- I was just looking at our school’s data! ;))

I am interested in learning more about being a culturally responsive teacher when choosing pieces of literature for my classroom, sharing this knowledge with my staff, finding more pieces of literature I can use in the school, as well as more literacy practices to increase all students’ success. I am looking forward to another incredible term for learning! :)

I'm particularly interested in literacy teaching with Gestalt Language Processors (GLPs). I get to work with several kids who us Gestalt Language Processing and it's a very new and exciting area that there is currently no research in. If you haven't heard of GLP, there are some great Instagrammers such as Meaningful Speech, Bohospeechie, and Amazing Autistic Abby who talk about it. Chances are there are some in every school.

Hi everyone!

I am currently a grade 8 Humanities teacher in my hometown of Powell River, B.C. on the beautiful Sunshine Coast.  As a Humanities teacher I am always looking for new literature to bring into my classroom, as well as creative ways to deliver content to my students and new ways for students to interact with the materials I present.  When students come  to me in grade 8 many of them are not keen to read, I hope to learn ways to re-engage my students with reading by providing them with materials that they want to read. 

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English Teacher and huge fan of literature and teaching literature.

I would be delighted to get some new strategies and lenses for engaging my students with literature and nurturing a love of literature.

In an elective course, I was introduced to feminist new materialism and posthumanism and I am keen to use these lenses to analyze literary works and consider how they might inform my teaching!

Hello all - I am in Cranbrook, BC. I am most interested in how to collect new material that fairly represents all works and all walks of life. I still appreciate and want to expose students to the literature deemed canonical and iconic up to this point in history, but I also desire more justified direction on how to select and analyse which materials should be included in ELA class studies and school libraries going forward in the 21st century.

I am TJ Lange (He/Him) and I am situated under beautiful prairie skies (and a little bit of wildfire smoke) out here in Transcona Manitoba. I have always loved stories and different ways to interact with them. I have taught a literature class off and on over the past 10 years and love to discuss different approaches and texts to further add to my tool box.

I'm Nicole (she/her) and I'm currently living in Burnaby, BC, but working as a Grade 2 teacher in Vancouver. The school that I work at has a high ELL population and many struggling readers in general. As a primary teacher, I'm excited to learn about different perspectives and strategies I can bring into my own literacy teaching practice. I want to explore ways that I can make literacy learning a successful experience for all of my students. :)

I'm a literacy teacher in a 5-9 middle school. I'm interested in best practice around literature selection, learning through literature and multicultural counter texts to support multiple perspectives when learning about a singular concept. I hope to learn how to best support English Language Learners as the majority of our 900 students are in various stages of learning English.