Weekly newsletter of Dr. Jamie Alarcon - Issue #3

Good Reads of Recent:

Regulating Emotions should be a learning target.

Emotions affect everything from how well we pay attention to our mental and physical health. And yet many of us never learn to talk about them with specificity. Marc Brackett's work at the Yale Center For Emotional Intelligence is to help people learn to recognize and thus manage their emotions for better life success.

Listen to students. Their Voice Matters.

A little more than a year ago, I remember sitting in meetings trying to figure out how we might do remote learning for a week or so to contain the ...

Whoa...hold up. I nominate my student

To be the next Ed Secretary. This is too good

Student Assignment from 3/30/21

This assignment is taken from Sarah Zerwin's book "Pointless". It is my favorite equitable grading book out there. If you are looking to change your grading practices, this book is a great guide for the ELA classroom.