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Our NEATE presentation
My co-teacher and I recently had the opportunity to present at the New England Association of Teachers of English. You can see our slide...
Oct 18, 20221 min read


Thematic Units, or, how I revamped an entire course in the middle of a pandemic
2020 was not an easy year to be a teacher. It was, up to that point, the most difficult year in my 16 years of teaching: we reinvented...
Aug 18, 20223 min read


Introducing our first whole-class novel
For years, I taught about Genie, the Southern California girl who was isolated and abused by her parents until she was found by social...
Aug 16, 20223 min read


Our NEATE presentation
My co-teacher and I recently had the opportunity to present at the New England Association of Teachers of English. You can see our slide...
Amy Plackowski


Thematic Units, or, how I revamped an entire course in the middle of a pandemic
2020 was not an easy year to be a teacher. It was, up to that point, the most difficult year in my 16 years of teaching: we reinvented...
Amy Plackowski


Introducing our first whole-class novel
For years, I taught about Genie, the Southern California girl who was isolated and abused by her parents until she was found by social...
Amy Plackowski
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