Additional to the many Professional and Community Resources, over the course of this demanding year, there were several spaces that aided in my growth as a teacher and learner.

Rounds 

Please see this page to read more about the Rounds process and see some of my round inquiry sheets. Teaching is so richly inseparable from what it means to learn and inquire, that I found the process of rounds to be very helpful in my practical teaching day to day, as well as the outcomes from the conversations. Over the course of the three rounds that I created, I was able to start seeing patterns in my teaching and places of growth that would arise in conversations post-round. Through the process of obervation and dialogue, however, seeing those patterns never felt like a barrier to my success as a teacher, but rather were a helpful focus as I would embark on planning a new lesson or unit. After each round, I always came out with some concrete step to make my lesson even more ELL-accessible, or more enriching, or improve management, or whatever it may be.

I reflect on many of these places of growth in my Reflection on Growth page. 

Ways of knowing courses 

Last, but not least I found my Ways of Knowing courses to be very helpful throughout my teaching year. 

Ways of Knowing (WOK) courses included: WOK Science, WOK Humanities, WOK History, and several WOK math. 

This concept that there are many ways to come to know something is central to my teaching philosophy, and was also central to many conversations that took place in these classrooms. As isolating as academia can be, when grounded in practice every day in a classroom (such as this program), the dialogue was always rich and filled with personal experience.