Kwa NateKo episodes:

• March 03, 2025Teacher’s Journal: The Week Ahead

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  "And I, you know, you do that a few times and people start to give. Can't answer. So I got a little more creative with that and it just turned out to be a really good habit to get the kids talking early on. And then there were other, like, there's more like semi formal social. Formal social emotional learning things that we do. Like there's an actual class, like time reserved for that. So there's. So the SEL stuff in the morning."

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• March 02, 2025Teacher’s Journal: American history. World history. Volunteer progression. Summer. Job opening.

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  "But if you basically said, I can tackle pretty much any math, and I've seen them across standardized tests, and even if I can get good enough at the specific things covered in, like, there's a mechanical engineering test that has to be taken. It has math and science in it. There's the mcat. You don't have to know everything in science, just those things specific to that test."

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• March 01, 2025Teacher’s Journal: CT Science Center. Field trips. Responsibility, anxiety, and young children. Alternative PD.

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  "Because they're there to enjoy the experience that they're at. And in this case also, there's a thing with like younger kids in general. I've also avoided like opportunities to work with younger kids because I would always, I was always afraid I would quote, unquote, break them in some respects."

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• March 01, 2025Teacher’s Journal: Volunteering. Who to shadow?

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  "And I guess it's another like as someone who work with younger kids less it's another place to get used to doing so. So yeah, it'll be a, a light ish day. So I talked about in a previous. Well wanted to get back tutoring locally like in the neighborhood or the city that I reside in. And it's not about the particular city, it's where I ever. I live."

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• February 28, 2025Exploring History: Four Hundred Souls (edited by Ibram X. Kennan’s Keisha N. Blain)

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  "Like it's more like a collection of sorts, articles related to African American history. But it's organized in chronological order and they're really short. Short enough that they're engag. They read like short narrative articles. So it's kind of like history written. Written in the style of fiction, kind of like, I would say, I wouldn't quite say like the New Yorker, but you feel more like you're moving through a story or an anthology rather than like a dry history textbook."

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• February 28, 2025Teacher’s Journal: B.E.A.M., Podcast Center, Student Anxiety, Part-Time Gigs

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  "And then there's a day program that's across, I think, five weeks where, you know, it's just, it's just during the day in either city. And I think they have another program in upstate New York. Now. What's really interesting about the program is the math that you cover. There's different classes, the kids take one. The day program, the kids take two math classes a day."

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• February 27, 2025Teacher’s Journal: Notes from a Saturday with a 3-6 grade teacher.

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  "They have some very specific structure. So I think, I think this whole. And that's another thing with the, like, I guess the homeschool movement and like the Montessori movement, there are limitations to that. And you can sometimes you have kids far being far behind in some areas because they didn't have proper instruction. So I don't. I feel like I have to like put some more refine that idea."

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• February 27, 2025Teacher’s Journal: Balancing Faith and Criticism With Co-Workers

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  "And I'll make it, if anything, I'll just like, if there's a lesson or assignment and I'm, you know, invited to give some input on it, or I see something, I make something about, say something about that particular thing and make it less about a person. I guess you're gonna say, until we're at a certain level. I just."

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• February 27, 2025Teacher’s Journal: Productive day/night. Workbook theory. Looking forward. Explicit instruction.

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  "And then I just really have to really focus on the actual assignment if I'm helping the kids and the other humanities teacher in our 11th grade structured support class. The kids are working on a project for the next couple weeks or so. So it's less material that I have to cover. And then there's our executive functioning kind of self management material for the 10th grade, 10th graders. I think it will actually be easier this coming month."

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• February 25, 2025Teacher’s Journal: Another reason algebra might be tough for students.

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  "It's small errors here and there, like putting a negative where it shouldn't be or adding things one off that kind of threw off the answers and they didn't make sense because usually when teachers set these kind of problems up at this level, you're not going to have answers with a lot of complicated decimals. You have to round. There'll be more exact answers or maybe they'll have like one or decimal place at most or they'll tell you."

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