Wow! Looking back on my first year as an assistant professor. I met or made or met significant progress on each goal I set. I think I can do this!

Our next Pláticas book club meeting will feature Prisca Dorcas Mojíca Rodríguez for a Q&A nothing like chatting with an author whose words speak to our hearts. #testimonio #Forbrowngirlswithsharpedgesandtenderhearts #HappyPride2023 #teacherswhowrite #ReadingCommunity SDSU Education

Reflecting on family and loss and the complications that come with both. Both missing and feeling angry with my dad and feeling conflicted as I visit the many places my roots have been planted and pulled uprooted and moved. #community #family #ancestors #roots #heartache

Preparing for Pláticas this evening. I’m in awe of Prisca Dorcas Mojíca Rodríguez words and am so honored she is attending to talk with and be in community with the maestras in this study! Also these nachos from @buen_provechoabq are beyond amazing!

Thank you Prisca Dorcas Mojíca Rodríguez for meeting with our pláticas tonight! We were so honored to meet and talk with you! Such an amazing experience for all of our Maestras/os. #platicasbookclubwritinggroup SDSU Education

Excited to serve on the Secondary Steering Committee National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

“If you are not teaching your students hearts you are not teaching” “the battle is real” Patsy Cordova #translanguaginginstitute

Last day in NM diving into the Archives. Read Teacher Diaries in the time period my Gram would have been going to school in Northern NM The echo of deficit is 😞the title of this project is going to be Literacy, Language, Erasure and Reclamation: A Testimonio of Home Pedagogies

Writing analytic memos today from #Pláticas meeting on Prisca Dorcas Mojíca Rodríguez #Forbrowngirlswithsharpedgesandtenderhearts the power of speaking with authors and identifying with words reflecting on how this speaks to our classrooms #teacherwriters #gatekeeping

Today’s dream reading #centerlatinévoices #translanguaging #encomunidad

Preparing for our Cuentos Writing Workshop next week. #communitywriting #teacherstestimonio #oralhistory #teacherswriting Kelly León SDSU Education

Preparing for the writing marathon next week at Cuentos. Mapping spaces in the borderlands. Friendship park is closed permanently this is as far as we can go. Writing prompt for this space has to be about barriers and borders and closing off friendship…loss #WritingCommmunity

Day 1, Year 1 Cuentos writing workshop in the books! 🤩 #artistportraits #rememberpoem #joyharjo #cultivatingjoyinwriting

Thrilled to have both incoming and former #GenerationGlobal teacher candidates from SDSU Education working with Assistant Prof Monica Baldonado-Ruiz, Ph.D. Today- we engaged in a writing marathon via multiple South Bay community locations, noticing and wondering about- the places our Ss call home.

What a wonderful morning writing in community! #cuentoswritingworkshop #teacherwriters #Borderlands #testimonio

When did Twitter change to X? Eww guess I’m out now

Last night was a turning point in my Teaching Journey. My first cohort of MA students presented their research and blew me away. Then they thanked me at the end and I sobbed afterwards. I know I’m on the correct path #firstgenscholars #teachingteachers SDSU Education

Listening back to a discussion I had with teachers reflecting on our Cuentos writing workshop and I’m having all the feels about the power of stories! 🥹#cuentosintheborderlands