| Abigail Woods 08/09/2020 |
Abigail Woods, from Stillwater, Oklahoma, is a head teacher at a daycare and a student at Oklahoma State University (OSU). She spoke about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Oklahoma and how it has… |
| Alex Berkley 02/17/2021 |
Alex Berkley, from Buffalo, New York, teaches special education at Pioneer High School. Mr. Berkley shares the struggles of making sure every student had access to technology. He also shares how the administrative… |
| Allison Berryhill 12/12/2020 |
Allison Berryhill, from Atlantic, Iowa, has taught for seventeen years at her current school. She has taught a range of English and journalism classes. Allison shares how teaching in a conservative community… |
| Andy Schoenborn 08/26/2020 |
Andy Schoenborn, an 11th and 12th grade English teacher in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, shares the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on his students and teaching as well as the challenges virtual learning brings… |
| Angie Braaten 01/23/2021 |
Angie Braaten is from Dallas, Texas and taught high school English in Louisiana for five years. She decided she wanted to teach internationally and ended up moving to Dhaka, Bangladesh. Ms. Braaten is… |
| Anna J. Small Roseboro 11/15/2020 |
Anna J. Small Roseboro, a retired educator, currently resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan with her husband of over fifty years. Mrs. Roseboro began teaching English at the secondary level in 1966 but recently… |
| Ashley Valencia-Pate 02/11/2021 |
Ashley Valencia-Pate, from Perkins, Oklahoma, is a senior English teacher in Stillwater, Oklahoma and a graduate student at Oklahoma State University. Mrs. Valencia-Pate shares the challenges that arose… |
| Barbara Edler 12/09/2020 |
Barbara Edler, from Keokuk, Iowa, taught for forty years. Teaching being her passion, Barbara shared the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to her classroom. Frustration, lack of communication… |
| Denise Hill 02/11/2021 |
Denise Hill, from Bay City, Michigan, has taught for thirty years. She shares how she found her passion for teaching when she started developmental courses at a community college. Mrs. Hill explains how… |
| Denise Krebs 09/30/2020 |
Denise Krebs, living in Manama, Bahrain, is an elementary English language teacher in an Arabic-English school. She spoke about the “silver lining” of the COVID-19 pandemic on her health and well-being,… |
| Donnetta Norris 01/23/2021 |
Donnetta Norris is a 2nd grade teacher who lives in Mansfield, Texas, while teaching in a Title I school in Arlington, Texas. Being part of a military family gave her the opportunity to teach in Georgia… |
| Elizabeth Jones 10/28/2020 |
Elizabeth 'Betsy' Jones of Moultrie, Georgia is a middle school instructional coach. She talked about her nontraditional path to teaching, becoming an instructional coach, and moving back into a teaching… |
| Emily Yamasaki 12/14/2020 |
Emily Yamasaki, from San Diego, California, has been teaching for nine years in a charter school. Mrs. Yamasaki shares that she was on maternity leave when the COVID-19 pandemic started. She expresses… |
| Gayle Sands 09/11/2020 |
Gayle Sands, a retired middle school English Language Arts teacher from Taneytown, Maryland, shares how she became a teacher and reading specialist as a second career. After teaching for twenty-six years,… |
| Glenda Funk 03/07/2021 |
Glenda Funk, a retired teacher from Chubbuck, Idaho, discusses what it meant to become a teacher in the late 1970’s, with very few options available to women. After 38 years of teaching, she retired at… |
| Jamie Langley 02/09/2021 |
Jamie Langley is a teacher at Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders in Austin, Texas. Mrs. Langley emphasizes the importance of having balance in the transition from face-to-face learning to remote… |
| Jennifer Jowett 09/18/2020 |
Jennifer Jowett, a middle school teacher in Lansing, Michigan, believes that her hometown’s nature has been influential to her writing. Being part of a family of educators has also encouraged her vocation… |
| Jennifer Sykes 02/27/2021 |
Jenny Sykes, a fourteen year veteran of the ELA classroom in Lansing, Michigan, has spent her years so far with 7th and 8th grade students at a large Catholic school. She also has navigated the challenging… |
| Kate Currie 10/15/2020 |
Kate Currie is a high school educator in Florence, South Carolina. She discovered her love of teaching while working with horses, and her grandmother influenced her to pursue a degree in education. She… |
| Katrina Morrison 12/19/2020 |
Katrina Morrison teaches 10th and 12th grade English in Skiatook, OK. In this interview, she shares her perception of how the COVID-19 pandemic caught the educational system off guard, and she discusses… |
| Kim Johnson 08/09/2020 |
Dr. Kim Johnson, from Williamson, Georgia, is the District Literacy Specialist at Pike County Schools. She describes how the sense of place became important to her writing and being during the quarantine… |
| Laura Langley & Jamie Langley 03/20/2021 |
Laura and Jamie Langley, high school teachers in Little Rock and Austin respectively, talk about their experiences with poetry and teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jamie and Laura being mother and… |
| Laura Langley 12/05/2020 |
Laura Langley teaches English to 11th and 12th graders at an Arts/Music Magnet in Little Rock, Arkansas. She has been teaching for a little over five years. Laura’s mother is also a teacher, however, Laura… |
| Lauryl Bennington 04/09/2021 |
Lauryl Bennington, a senior majoring in secondary education at Oklahoma State University, talks about writing poetry in Dr. Sarah Donovan's class during the COIVD-19 pandemic and how it led her to further… |
| Linda Mitchell 11/11/2020 |
Linda Mitchell is a school librarian at a Middle School in Manassas, Virginia. She teaches at a Title I school and speaks on the diverse student population. She shares how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed… |
| Margaret Simon 01/16/2021 |
Margaret Simon, from New Iberia, Louisiana, rediscovered her passion for writing through the National Writing Project summer institute. Mrs. Simon teaches gifted students as an itinerant teacher for two… |
| Maureen Young Ingram 09/29/2020 |
Maureen Ingram, a teacher educator in Silver Spring, Maryland, discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on her work as a preschool teacher mentor. She has worked with parent participatory and urban… |
| Melissa Ali 10/07/2020 |
Melissa Ali is the magnet coordinator, English language development coordinator, Title I coordinator, trauma informed coordinator, and student empowerment coach at an elementary school in Los Angeles,… |
| Mo Daley 12/12/2020 |
Mo Daley, from Oak Forest, Illinois has been a classroom teacher for a couple decades and is currently a reading specialist in her middle school. She shares her sense of a rollercoaster spring in 2020… |
| Monica Schwafaty 10/16/2020 |
Monica Schwafaty is an 8th grade English Language Arts teacher in Torrance while living in Redondo Beach, California. Ms. Schwafaty has been teaching for twenty-five years. She shared how writing poetry… |
| Sarah Donovan 10/19/2020 |
Dr. Sarah Donovan is an assistant professor of secondary English education at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. She is the creator of Ethicalela.com for teachers, where she promotes the… |
| Scott McCloskey 02/12/2021 |
Scott McCloskey, from Monroe, Michigan, has been teaching for twenty-six years. Mr. McCloskey currently teaches English Language Arts at a secondary level and part-time at the community college. He expresses… |
| Seana Wright 01/05/2021 |
Seana Wright is from Los Angeles, California and has been teaching primarily upper grades for thirty years. She is also a National Board Certified teacher. Seana talked about coming from a family (mother/father)… |
| Shaun Ingalls 08/07/2020 |
Shaun Ingalls, a high school English teacher in Las Vegas, Nevada, talks about his 20+ year career in education and how his experience in blended learning helped him to teach during the COVID-19 pandemic.… |
| Stacey Joy 10/07/2020 |
Stacey Joy, an elementary teacher in Los Angeles, California, is a National Board Certified teacher and Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year. She talks about how her Google certification training helped… |
| Stefani Boutelier 09/13/2020 |
Dr. Stefani Boutelier, associate professor of education at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, describes her experience writing during the COVID-19 pandemic as a time of mindful poetic journaling,… |
| Susan Ahlbrand 09/06/2020 |
Susan Ahlbrand, an 8th grade Language Arts teacher in Jasper, Indiana, has been part of a family of educators throughout her life. She shares her changing perspectives on education as she transitioned… |
| Susie Morice 10/31/2020 |
Susie Morice, a retired educator, worked in various capacities in the field of education. She was a middle school English Language Arts teacher but also taught in high school and at the college level.… |
| Tamara Belko 10/10/2020 |
Tamara 'Tammi' Belko, from Rock River, Ohio, is a gifted intervention specialist in her district. She works in a 1:1 school district, where before the COVID-19 pandemic each student had each been given… |
