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Over the past several years, my teaching has cultivated critical dialogue amongst students on social issues–education, gender, ethnic/racial conflict, classism, and so on. I raise questions; that’s what I do. Truth be told, my personal agenda is clearly a progressive one; although, I am very careful not to stack the deck against students with contrary [...]

During December our Earth Scouts group participated in a service project of collecting shoes for Share Your Soles. You might think–why shoes? To be honest, I never really thought about the importance of shoes, but after learning more about this organization and exploring this issue, I now see how very valuable shoes can be–sometimes even [...]

Pink, blue, purple, green–aren’t these all just colors, beautiful colors of our world?! I really don’t understand why people associate colors, or anything else for that matter, so completely with one gender or the other. Why can’t a boy get a purple folder? Why can’t a girl get a plastic frog to play with? And [...]