The Polliwog Journal

If you read The Polliwog Journal, you know I am a huge fan of blogs in the classroom, but especially for teachers as a means to reflect, share, and communicate with the broader teaching community. Not only that, but teachers who blog are more likely to engage their students in the interactive realm that blogs provide.

So it is with great pride (and a good deal of prejudice) that I make this link to my former student’s new blog: A New Ecology. It will be obvious to anyone who takes to reading Kimberly’s blog regularly, that I am proud of her for much, much more than a little blog. She is an amazing young woman who has taken on “a new ecology” for herself in Honduras, teaching AP English to students whose native language is not English. And this is her first job.

And yet, she welcomes the challenges that lie before her. She will struggle as we all did in our first year, as we all do even in our 20th or 30th year. Teaching is an ever-changing consumption of our abilities and intellect, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Neither would Kimberly.

She was my student and now we are hers. The best thing about blogging is that we can learn from each others’ rich experiences. If you have a moment, or the inclination, please join me in welcoming Kimberly to the blogosphere by leaving a comment for her.