Category: thomas jefferson

• Whose Independence?

  I spent quite a lot of time thinking about independence this year. It isn’t that I hadn’t considered the Declaration of Independence through the lens of equality and inequality before, but a recent PD session at Academy for Teachers helped me think about independence in a historical way that I’d not really considered. The idea…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  February 7, 2020

  alternative assessment, declaration of independence, discussion, gender, primary source, race, reading strategies, reflection, slavery, thomas jefferson

  declarationofindependence, declarationofsentiments, frederickdouglass, hardhistory

• Thomas Jefferson Podcast

  Yesterday I gave my students a survey on, well, me as a teacher. It was by far the scariest thing I’ve done as a teacher so far, but it turned out okay. One of the questions that I asked was how I could improve the class. One thing that students asked for was more group…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  April 22, 2009

  edtech, educational technology, lesson, podcast, thomas jefferson