Brian Sztabnik
@TalksWTeachers
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Brian Sztabnik is a classroom teacher, a 2018 NY Teacher of the Year finalist, an Edutopia blogger, and the College Board Advisor for AP Lit.
Long Island
Joined December 2013
Here are 25 things that will sustain @susangbarber and me in 2025.
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1 – Overload – The work of teaching will never end, so you must choose when and where to end it. There’s simply not time to do everything required of the job; make peace with the fact that some...
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Here’s my quick fix that boosts student engagement. @ncte .#aplitchat .
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Frustration Here’s a frustration I grappled with earlier in the year and a quick-fix solution. Sometimes, I would work to make a lesson engaging and dynamic and with it came all this excitement to...
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I am looking to interview a few teachers for a project I’m working on who have been magnificently impacted by a mentor. If this sounds like you, please send me a direct message.
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There is a constant tension in teaching between stagnation vs growth. Here's 5 ways to improve without sacrificing your time or your sanity.
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Over the years I have helped hundreds of seniors with their college essay, providing advice on how to nail the opening, find their voice, write with clarity, and reveal something authentic. I...
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Q8. Why does the speaker choose to end the poem with a series of rhetorical questions? #aplitchat.
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A7. There is this sense that they need to step out of their relative darkness and onto a bigger stage with a brighter spotlight. #aplitchat.
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Q7. What is implied in the line “to lean into the spotlight of streetlight with you,”? #aplitchat.
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A5: The speaker realizes that in the darkness starlight reaches us and it has a power to illuminate from a distance long after it is gone. #aplitchat.
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A4. I see a relationship between the bigger picture --the constellations -- and her immediate impact -- her trash. She questions the impact she has on the grand scale. #aplitchat.
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A3. I can't tell if it is two lovers or neighbors rolling out garbage cans and taking notice of the celestial sky. #aplitchat.
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Q3. There is a lot that is figurative in the poem. Students may want to jump there initially, missing the literal. Literally, what is our speaker doing? #aplitchat.
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A2. I anticipate my students struggling with the second stanza, "I am a hearth of spiders these days: a nest of trying." #aplitchat.
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A1. "if we launched our demands into the sky, made ourselves so big.people could point to us with the arrows they make in their minds," #aplitchat.
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