K. A. Keener
@kakeener.bsky.social
Educator. Coffee Geek. Writer. Kkeener.com
New post up at Moving Writers about how I teach my students to build a metaphor throughout a college entrance essay! movingwriters.org/2025/03/25/m... #mentortexts @rebekahodell1.bsky.social
Metaphor as an Organizing Force in the College Entrance Essay
March 25, 2025 The college entrance essay: Should we teach it or shouldn’t we? This year, the guidance department of our high school, New Directions Secondary School in the Bronx, NY, asked m…
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As a teacher, I’m thinking about… if the federal govt has disallowed employees from using the word “disability” and half the fed. DOE that ensures students with disability receive accommodation, what does that mean for my special education students? Where are you America? Help us! #protectourkids
On Moving Writers, read about my experiencing using AI to try to help all the different language levels in my high school class: movingwriters.org/2025/02/12/u... #aied #teachingwithai #diffit #eduai
Using Artificial Intelligence for Differentiation
Show of hands… how many people feel that the need to differentiate in your classroom has become more intense? Here at my public high school in New York City, in the Bronx, working with studen…
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The days immediately following school shootings are the very worst to be a teacher in this country.
“Let us revel in the fact that dreams are small gifts of liberatory abundance. “ from the #ncte call for proposals for the 2025 conference in Denver. Let’s submit: how are you helping students cultivate their dream farms?
Making my way through rainy streets of nyc this morning to my classroom, I’m thinking, am I doing enough? Parents: know that there is an army in this city thinking the same thing and striving for your kids everyday. #teach
How I’m teaching game design for hope in the Ella classroom: movingwriters.org/2024/12/10/t...
Teaching Game Design for Hope
Image via: Never Alone, Upper One Games. I’ve been thinking about hope lately. It’s winter here in New York City. There are certain things about the season here that feel hopeful: the s…
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Every year I clean out my closets on Black Friday. Nothing encourages you to NOT buy things like donating bags of stuff you’d forgotten you owned. #boycottblackfriday
Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94. His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.
Thank you to all the innovative English teachers using games in their classes that I met at #ncte24. I will see you all in English teacher heaven. 💕
Congrats on a impactful, relevant call to action about literacy to build civil discourse in our online and offline world! @rbmann.bsky.social #ncte24
Let’s gamify poetry discussion in our classrooms! Tomorrow I will share Explicate: the poetry analysis card game of my design at NCTE’s Classroom Idea Exchange. #ncte24
Come see me at 2 in room 209 to hear about game design for community identity, empathy building, and understanding narrative. Then at 3:30 come see our presentation on youth imagination and civic praxis (Dr. Lauren Leigh Kelly leading!)
