Sometimes I forget to breathe. I’d never really thought about my relationship with respiration until a few years ago. In … More
Author: Olivia Mulcahy
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Trans A meditation on a prefix Un prefijo * Trans explains to me Nothing is fijo M’hijx Let me tell … More
A Collection of Pandemic-Catalyzed Freedom Dreams: Beacons to a Better New Normal
Today I read the article, What If We Radically Reimagined the New School Year? by fellow Chicago educator Ashley McCall, … More
Cuídate. Ese es el Plan de Estudios.
Mil gracias a Victoria y Rafael Cervantes por esta traducción, 6 de abril 2020 Escrito por Olivia Mulcahy, 27 de … More
Defamiliarizing Our Way to a Better New Normal.
(A Lesson Plan for Now, An Action Plan for Later.) Thinking on some questions that feel sort of essential… How … More
Take Care. That is the Curriculum.
A while ago I wrote about how we might reimagine homework as the task of taking care. Now, as so … More
A Class in Becoming Multilingual?
You know you are a little bit too nerdy about your work and/or you need a real vacation without your … More
Why I Love Testing
Wait…What? For real. I love testing because… I know what is expected of me and have already shown myself that … More
Is ESL Good for Everybody?
Aren’t ESL strategies simply good for everybody? Isn’t good teaching for ELs just good teaching? I hear some version of … More