Last week, my students, colleagues, and I found out the results of the 2024 US election in real time between the mundane lessons, tests, and meetings of a typical school day. I’m an English teacher in Singapore, which means that our daytime is the US nighttime, so we processed the unfolding reality together, an oceanContinue reading "Teaching The Handmaid’s Tale on November 6, 2024"
On Grief and Memory
June 17, 2016 Nine days ago, Raekwon Brown was shot and killed outside the Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Boston. Raekwon was one of my students when he was a 9th grader and I was a 23-year-old teacher resident, soaking in everything I could that might help me connect with my teenage students. At the time,Continue reading "On Grief and Memory"
“SHE HAD ALWAYS WANTED WORDS, SHE LOVED THEM; GREW UP ON THEM. WORDS GAVE HER CLARITY, BROUGHT REASON, SHAPE.” ― MICHAEL ONDAATJE, THE ENGLISH PATIENT
Leaf Elhai 