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L Eckert
Houston Texas
Love is what matters. Master of English.
Interests: I'm interested in travel, writing, education, Native American literature (Simon Ortiz, Joy Harjo, N. Scott Momaday) the work of John Steinbeck, and I like the outdoors...just not enough to live there.
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Writing in High School: Why the Standards for Teachers and Students are too Low
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Copied from a friend: Right at this moment I am experiencing the frustration of trying to undo the damage and neglect that happens when teachers fail to take any composition theory courses or engage in any practicums or actual student teaching. I'm basically cleaning up after people that think that... Continue reading
Posted Sep 10, 2019 at The Red HOT Pen
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Fresh Starts, The Crucible, and Joseph McCarthy: Relationships Matter
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Have you ever thought about what happens to a student, friend, colleague, or partner when you refuse to grant them a fresh start? What if we hauled our students into the principal’s office at the beginning of a fresh semester and reminded them of everything they had been accused of... Continue reading
Posted Aug 29, 2019 at The Red HOT Pen
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Goodbye to the NRA, Trump, and Greg Abbott--Enough is Enough
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On days such as this, after a series of tragic, public mass slayings, I usually just fall silent. A side of me feels as if I am not up to the task of writing about such sensitive and important, unnecessary, and bloody crimes. What would I say? I guess I... Continue reading
Posted Aug 4, 2019 at The Red HOT Pen
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Dear Readers: Professional Development in the English Community! I Know you are Mesmerized 😃📚
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My long journey into education, tough and fraught with peril, has been padded by a long list of fabulous supporters and teachers. Just this summer, I finished a week long training with 29 other people facilitated by a professional that truly knew his content and cheered us all on with... Continue reading
Posted Aug 1, 2019 at The Red HOT Pen
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I write about neoliberalism in my blog, and I also write about ethics since my blog is just a social critique. I have had such interesting experiences working as a teacher in a prominent (controversial) charter school chain. While I don't necessarily always call my school district out, these experiences have raised a virtual truckload of interesting questions even though most of the posts that are up now are a bit general. Your insight would be fabulous if you have time to comment. www.redhotpen.com Thank you for taking on these difficult questions, and I hope you acquire more devoted readers. In just this one post you remind us of the responsibilities of corporations, most of whom could care less about the social fabric of their communities or the well being of their employees. Since so many have forgotten the word "ethical," any kind of a reminder is valuable...
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Donald Trump, Climate Change, and Totalitarianism: A Connection
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Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism is a tough read. And sometimes I wish I hadn't struggled through her dense prose because much of it is making me sick with worry. I feel like an old time fortune teller because everything that I learned in the book is relevant to... Continue reading
Posted Jul 9, 2019 at The Red HOT Pen
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Raw Writing: Thoughts on a Cold Saskatchewan Night and Climate Change
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Falling down the stairs and jamming my foot under the metal bookcase reaffirmed my belief in my lack of grace and physical talent. The fact that I’m having trouble typing this proves I’ve been lazy about writing since I finished up grad school. The humiliating trip to Macy’s today for... Continue reading
Posted Jun 25, 2019 at The Red HOT Pen
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An Appeal to Politicians Everywhere as We Begin to Experience the Horrors of Climate Change
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This morning a red cardinal pecked away at the feeder hanging in my patio bird habitat. As I drove off to work, I thought about the delicate bones and feathers, the lightweight and aerodynamic body of the bird, and the interesting fact that birds are not hierarchical. In other words,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2019 at The Red HOT Pen
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Human Caused Climate Change and Human Extinction: Is it Possible?
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The book, “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming,” written by David Wallace-Wells (writer for New York Magazine), dishes up a frightening dose of climate reality including analysis pertaining to why the muted message to the public hampers progress and endangers innocent people living in developing countries. A few chapters into... Continue reading
Posted Apr 20, 2019 at The Red HOT Pen
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Emergency! Become Aware of the Creeping Consequences of Neoliberal Policy and Learn how to Fight Back 💲
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American parents and students must become aware of how neoliberal values creep into schools and negatively affect the quality of learning. Marketplace ideologies warp education because schools spend billions on test prep and curriculum materials that fail to regard student locality and culture. The “one-size-fits-all” approach to education supports the... Continue reading
Posted Mar 26, 2019 at The Red HOT Pen
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Fake Apologies, Cowards, and Nothing Burgers
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Fake apologies, the stuff of cowards, come from a place of deficit. Usually the person doing the apologizing fears some kind of a loss, such as a sports contract, a job or bonus, or some position of privilege. They may even consider the recipients of the apology not an intellectual... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2019 at The Red HOT Pen
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Obviously, any kind of writing is difficult for you, so it makes me wonder why you would try creating a curriculum for a subject you don't even know anything about for an English community that you are not even really a member of.
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When People Fake Their Credentials to Teach English, Life Gets Messy
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I still can’t figure out what the novel has done to deserve banishment from my school district. Maybe it overburdened the other English teachers with its depth and complexity, its characterizations and shifting perspectives. The flashbacks and foreshadows, the genres and vocabulary, the sometimes inverted syntax and literary expressions, certainly... Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2019 at The Red HOT Pen
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Narratives of Negativity: When they obscure the positive
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It was the new millennium and my mother's fight with cancer channeled itself to its predictable, unfortunate ending. My child was not yet walking, but he sometimes pulled himself up on a plastic storage tub, yelling and screaming, beating his little fists on the lid for attention while I walked... Continue reading
Posted Feb 11, 2019 at The Red HOT Pen
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