Maria DeGracia-Redhair

09/22/2022

Looking for some additional support for your child this school year?
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09/28/2021

Indigenous Land: Stewardship, Relationships, and Responsibility Saturday, September 25, 2021 | 12:30PM–3:00PM ET (9:30AM-12:00PM PT) The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and Teaching for Change host a day of online conversation, curriculum sharing, and ideas exchange. ...

08/12/2020

https://russonreading.blogspot.com/2020/08/reading-instruction-at-distance-read.html?fbclid=IwAR2yJBojumJgXncXg2Hv6_1BuqjbHbetFwotUS5xn_ig7hFaEY3gdGZnZ_8&m=1

A blog focused on literacy issues, best practice instruction and the political landscape of public education.

08/06/2020

https://judiholst.com/teaching-tip-stay-safe-when-returning-to-school/

Here are ten tips on how to keep yourself safe as a teacher in and out of the classroom this fall according to a renowned pulmonologist.

08/04/2020

Encouraging reminder of how much Teachers are the driving factor impacting student achievement. Achievement in terms of the whole child from academia to social-emotional growth, teachers have much influence.

Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'" A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

07/28/2020

I have been waiting sometime to flush out my thoughts in this time of pandemonium as we experience a world wide crisis. I want to offer support and guidance to those who need it in this time. I do not seek to exploit this pandemic, but these past months have shown that consultants are needed even more as parents and educators seek innovative ways to educate today’s youth.

Thus, I will be embarking on creating materials to support online ways of teaching. I will be using this platform as a way to share my journey, express what I have come to know, and make recommendations as I see would be beneficial to education. I am hoping that you will join me. Whether you are educating at home or in a school, I will be offering some materials and ideas that you may find helpful.

For so long, I have been engaged in bridging that gap between inequity in education from time spent in multicultural communities and Title I schools. While teaching is intricate and multifaceted, there is a simplicity in that one either wants to know what or how to teach. Whether you are a new or veteran educator/homeschooler I am seeking ways to offer ideas and materials to answer those basic needs.

I do review a wide-range of materials and will be presenting materials that can also have biblical teaching connections if so desired. Tailoring activites to meet individual students’ needs is what I seek to provide especially for the parent who has newly found themselves in the roll of teacher.

~Maria