Navigating my Mind
As a former fifth grade science teacher, I know the importance of being able to assist students with strategies to stay organized and overcome challenges. However, these planning skills are often not taught to younger […]
Middle School
Blocks to STEM Success: A Spatial Learning Puzzle Book
What the spatial… why?! My interest, and hopefully soon to be yours too, is spatial learning. What’s that, you ask? Well, spatial learning is a foundational skill necessary for STEM success. While there are four […]
A Student Leader’s Guide to Building Teams
The coming of age journey in real life is never as smooth as what we get in the stories. Most of the time, human teenagers don’t understand why they’ve been put together with other equally […]
GLOBAL HEARTS
GLOBAL HEARTS, a Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) guidebook, offers sample workshop ideas designed for instructors to use in SEL workshops, particularly for middle school international students. It is intended for any instructor interested in teaching SEL, […]
Samia and Roosevelt High
I have explored identity and belonging in this comic strip. I was born in Lahore, Pakistan where I grew up attended school, college, worked, got married but then migrated to the US. I have now […]
Who’s that Pokemon?
This project is a framework that aims to improve student agency and engagement in a middle school classroom through Pokemon. It will help students understand what kind of Pokemon or learner they are through a […]