It has been a crazy (almost) two years since I created this website. I finished up my student teaching, which was such a wonderful experience. Right before the start of the following school year, I landed a 1st grade teaching job at an amazing school in the West Linn/Wilsonville School District.
I learned so much, and was challenged every day. Teaching in a low income and culturally diverse school allowed me to continually assess my practice and how I was providing an equitable and highly rigorous experience to all of my students. I worked closely with SPED teachers and integrated a lot of new ideas that I utilize today.
When my temporary contract ended I was afforded the opportunity to join the Portland Public School District (where I went to school, and student taught). I am now teaching 4th grade, which has always been a dream of mine. I have a fantastic group of 4th graders who challenge me every day.
Reflecting back on the past years as I have embarked on this journey, I found that I desired to continue to catalogue the different practices and ideas I was trying out in my own classroom. I wanted to open my practice, engage in that self reflection, and be held accountable to my students, colleagues, and myself through this medium. So my commitment is to regularly update, research and make time to exercise this aspect of teaching.
I will be launching a donorschoose project for my classroom to crowdfund some chromebooks for my students, and I will update on that process as I go through it. I will also be posting some of the fantastic resources and ideas that I have been working with since coming to my new school. High expectations are not only for students, and I hope to continue to strive for them every day.
