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For the past few years, I haven't had a classroom. However, I have been able to guest teach lessons with students. This is challenging because I don't get the luxury of multiple opportunities to build teacher-student relationships. I have to earn a little trust within 30 seconds of meeting them. This episode is about five ways to earn students' trust and letting them know they belong in our classrooms. We'll focus on the use of excerpts from four major young-adult novels to help us with these conversations in the classrooms and talk about how they can inform conversations with our faculty.

Works Cited

Acevedo, Elizabeth. With the Fire on High. HarperTeen, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019.

DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press, 2018.

Jewell, Tiffany, and Aurélia Durand. This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake up, Take Action, and Do the Work. Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2020.

Mafi, Tahereh. A Very Large Expanse of Sea. Harpercollins, 2018.

Sánchez, Erika L. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. Alfred A. Knopf, an Imprint of Random House Children's Books, 2017.

Thomas, Angie. On the Come Up. HarperCollins Publisher, 2019.

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I have a confession. I wasn't interested in reading Mr. Minor's book. I'm a fan of Mr. Minor. I loved listening to him speak at NCTE's Conference on English Leadership. I think he is a big deal. But I was really expecting his book to be a motivational book and less about curriculum and instruction. I've never been this happy to be wrong! It turns out, Mr. Minor's book is a superhero book that condemns the superhero narrative. Not all aspects, just the stereotypes that burden educators with unrealistic expectations. Expectations that cause burn out and promote martyrdom work culture.

In this episode, I share a handful of excerpts worth reflecting on with your faculty, PLC, teacher team, teacher BFF, first-year teacher, a teacher in a slump, and administrator!

This book is ideal to create a teacher workforce of free thinkers, problem solvers, and self-sufficient teams. If you want a teacher team that follows the district curriculum to Fidelity, you might want to avoid this book.

Minor, C. (2019). We got this: Equity, access, and the quest to be who our students need us to be. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

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Welcome to another episode of SUPER MODEL TEXTS where we look at short excerpts from totally LIT novels that must be shared with students to increase their understanding of grammar and writing mechanics!  In this episode, we'll look at three activities covering diction analysis, grammar, and more worth focusing on using Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment!"

Access the text at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13707/13707-h/13707-h.htm

Video available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/If_O79ukuvQ 

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Welcome to another episode of SUPER MODEL TEXTS where we look at short excerpts from totally LIT novels that must be shared with students to increase their understanding of grammar and writing mechanics!