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My Hurricane Ian Lesson Plan — How to Help Students in a Natural Disaster
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By Zainab Cheema  A Florida Educator on Hurricane Ian This week, my university (and just about everything else) in southwest Florida, got shut down because of Hurricane Ian. In a flurry of …


Visual Student Assessments: Some Tips from The Google Infused Classroom
September 12, 2022

By Zainab Cheema  In teaching language arts and literature to college students, one of my challenges has increasingly become to help students embrace the text. Our students are increasingly saturated in …


Teaching Strategies from The Google Infused Classroom: Understanding by Design
August 31, 2022

By Zainab Cheema  How do you blend together technology and learning design in the 21st century classroom? That’s the question that Clark and Avrith try to answer in their bestseller, The …


The ENF Podcast Episode 6: Interview with Dr. Javed Iqbal, Surgeon, Author and Educational Expert
August 4, 2022

By Zainab Cheema    In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Javed Iqbal. Dr. Javed is a medical doctor and surgeon, poet, motivational speaker and Youtube influencer from Pakistan. Dr. Javed …


The Universe and Me: Lesson Plan Using James Webb Telescope Images
July 26, 2022

By Zainab Cheema  On Tuesday, July 12, NASA released the first photographs taken from the James Webb Space Telescope launched into outer space in February of this year. Around the world, …


Teaching Poetry: Self and World in Elizabeth Bishop’s “Crusoe in England”
July 12, 2022

By Zainab Cheema  When we travel, who is the self that returns home? And what exactly is that home? This is the reflection question that I ask my students at the …


How to Not White-Out Education? Strategies for Using Culturally Responsive Teaching
June 28, 2022

By Zainab Cheema  Disney’s Ms Marvel recently gave a shout-out to culturally responsive education. In Episode 2 of the hit show starring Pakistani American superhero Kamala Khan, her activist best friend …


Education So White? Transforming Your Classroom with Culturally Responsive Teaching
June 20, 2022

By Zainab Cheema  The Achievement Gap vs Culturally Responsive Teaching What is culturally responsive teaching? By seeing students’ cultural differences as assets in their learning process, you can transform your classroom into …


Building Student Collaboration and Motivation in Online Teaching
June 6, 2022

By Zainab Cheema  How do we build student motivation and collaboration in online classrooms? There can be no doubt that collaboration is the key to your class’ success, especially in online …


Mental Health & SEL Resources for Healing from School Shooting Trauma
May 25, 2022

By Zainab Cheema  As the national heartbreak from the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde continues, educators and families are confronted with how to respond to an all too familiar …


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