June 2022, I spent a few days in Orlando, Florida for the Learning Sciences International Building Expertise Educators’ Conference. The conference closed out with a
Author: Educator Barnes
Educator Barnes is a married mother of identical twin boys. She has been an educator for nearly two decades. Although she has worked in the urban traditional public school setting for the majority of her career, she student taught in rural Indiana, worked in the suburbs, and in public charter schools. She leads Blazing Brilliance, an education consulting business. She is also Brave Brothers Books Co-Founder & CEO, and teaches undergraduate and graduate college courses. Previously, she served as a middle school academic dean, an elementary library/media specialist, an elementary and high school literacy coach, a middle and high school English/Language Arts teacher, and K-5 English as a New Language teacher. She won the 2019 Indiana Black Expo Excellence in Education Journalism Award. To learn more about Educator Barnes, visit http://www.educatorbarnes.com.
Book Review – We Are Not Like Them
My younger sister and I are reading books together this year. Our first book was Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from
Brazen Education: Let’s Talk about Sex Education Part III – A Scientific Approach
*New podcast episode alert* Check out episode 56 – Let’s Talk about Sex Education Part III – A Scientific Approach, and tell me what you
Book Review – Beloved
In 1988, Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the novel Beloved. Although this is a fiction book, there is history tied to
Brazen Education: See, Shift, & Sustain: A Journey of Entrepreneurship
*New podcast episode alert* Check out episode 55 – See, Shift, & Sustain: A Journey of Entrepreneurship, and tell me what you think. You can
Book Review – Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
I recently took the course a Research Seminar in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education for my doctoral program at IU Bloomington. One of the books