Teachers sharing, connecting, and growing together.
Welcome to the CoOp corner! I’m Nikki, a member of the third EdCo cohort, and the host of this page! Here, we will be shining a spotlight on the stellar work of CoOp teachers in ALL Nashville classrooms. We hope to share with you our glows and grows as we navigate through our classrooms, schools, …
My students will never know that a small group of educators all around Nashville made me a better teacher which in turn has helped them own their learning better.
Sometime at the end of last school year my Head of High School suggested that I organize a session for the National Association for Independent School’s People of Color Conference. I balked. As a white woman, it felt like an odd choice. My obvious lack of melanin (not to mention my naiveté as a fifth …
He believes what we’re doing and working for is not only possible, but within reach. “I leave feeling invigorated and hopeful.”
In the latest update from the CoOp Corner, we have a story of collaboration that gets right to the heart of The Educators' Cooperative. Lindsey Roe, a Middle School ELL teacher collaborated with Mike Mitchell, Art teacher at Father Ryan High School on a project that included not only their own shared planning and collaboration, …
Jennifer Weinblatt teaches 6th Grade English at Harding Academy in Nashville, TN. She is an active member of The Educators' Cooperative and its Leadership Committee. In this installment of the CoOp Corner, she examines how we value leadership and some of the alternative qualities that are worth nurturing. If this were a face-to-face conversation, I would …
Continue reading "Reimagining ‘Leadership’ In (and From) The Classroom"
After a short pause in updates in the CoOp Corner for Winter Break and a return to something like normal schedule, we return to the thoughts and experiences of participating Cooperative teachers with an update from Jennifer Ferguson, an Exceptional Education teacher at Hermitage Elementary School. She shares about her experience bringing Mindfulness into her …
Creating the space for your students to take risks and make mistakes is some of the hardest work teachers do. When 6th Grade English teacher Katie Reen set out to make that space for her students in the realm of microaggressions in texts they were reading together, they practices and discovered much more than they …
Continue reading "Microaggressions: How to Spot ‘Em, How to Stop ‘Em"
By Colleen Cummings Colleen Cummings shares her experience searching for the right balance between the motivation of "Yes!" and the deficit mindset of "Yes, but..." in the CoOp Corner. Colleen is a founding teacher at Explore! Community School in East Nashville and a member of The Educators' Cooperative Leadership Committee. I started teaching for the …
Continue reading "Defeat A Deficit Mindset With One Word: Yes"
By Amy Nystrand Amy Nystrand is a 4th Grade teacher at Gower Elementary School. In this installment in the CoOp Corner, she shares her thoughts on the power of listening to her students as well as to her fellow teachers in the Cooperative when the time came to push harder to engage more challenging critical …
Our guest in the CoOp Corner is Tiffani Norman, an Advanced Academic Resource Teacher at Eakin Elementary School, MNPS. Many schools in Nashville recently paused for a Fall Break, giving teachers, students, and families an opportunity to catch their breath as the routines and schedules of the new school year start to solidify. Tiffani took …