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) of educators so she was determined not to be a teacher. Although she had a different plan, she had a long talk with her father who helped her to see that teaching would allow her to have a better future and to eventually buy the car she wanted. Once she decided that she would teach, she took a long-term substitute position at her mother’s school. She ended up working in that school for fifteen years. Seana shared how challenging it was to shift from face-to-face teaching to 'crisis learning' in the spring of 2020. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic as pervasive as it is and schools still closed, she found herself wanting to be successful with distance teaching and wanting to help her students as much as possible. She enrolled in the district’s institute designed to teach teachers how to successfully teach, use technology, and engage students in a virtual setting. Without that training, Seana said she would not have been as comfortable with the tools she uses for daily remote instruction. As a writer, Seana found Ethical ELA’s Open Writes to be a space for her own learning and growing. She loves the community of support and looks forward to each month’s writing challenges.