The Alaska Teacher’s Love Note Challenge 2018!

February 3, 2018 Teaching

Monday, February 5th marks the start of The Alaska Teacher's Love Note Challenge 2018. If you want to challenge yourself to spread positivity to students, parents, and colleagues for ten ... Read more

Essentials for Enjoying A Brevig Mission Feast

December 20, 2017December 21, 2017 Alaska Life

In Brevig Mission, there are two village feasts: one at Thanksgiving and one at Christmas. It was that way in Shishmaref too. The TAT family has learned a lot from ... Read more

7 Ways to Be a Bad Neighbor in a Duplex that Shares a Laundry Room

November 11, 2017 Alaska Life

Note to readers: This is NOT a passive-aggressive attack on any of our neighbors thinly veiled as an informative post. It is instead a confession of the ways the TAT ... Read more

Being An Alaska Bush Teacher Is…

October 28, 2017 Teaching

I've been reflecting about what it means to be an Alaska Bush Teacher. I've only been at it for thirteen years. And I've only worked in two villages in the ... Read more

8 Ways I Survive District Inservice Meetings That Require Sleeping on a Classroom Floor

October 15, 2017 Teaching

In a school district roughly the size of the state of Minnesota, you have to do some things, um, differently. Take, for example, the District Inservice Meeting. A standard part ... Read more

Getting a Masters Degree in the Alaska Bush

October 14, 2017October 14, 2017 Teaching

It's been a little quiet in The Alaska Teacher Land lately. (Note to readers: the word quiet only applies to the blog. There's been plenty of noise in real life ... Read more

Alaska Food Network Review

August 26, 2017August 26, 2017 Alaska Life

It's a well documented fact that the TAT family has been happy customers of Full Circle Farm for years. But, when we saw an advertisement for the Alaska Food Network ... Read more

Brevig Mission: More Fun Facts

February 28, 2017March 4, 2017 Alaska Life

I already formally introduced Brevig Mission to TAT readers, but it's time to get to know Brevig Mission even better. Location Brevig Mission is marked on the Google Map above. ... Read more

Ivory Carvings: the Addiction is Real

February 25, 2017March 4, 2017 Alaska Life

My name is Angie, and I have a problem. I buy too many ivory carvings. It's just that they're so beautiful. Like these walruses (walri?) by Randall Jones. I just ... Read more

Book Reflections: An Ethic of Excellence by Ron Berger

February 20, 2017November 1, 2018 Teaching

Ron Berger, An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003). Like my last book reflection, I was introduced to this fabulous little book by ... Read more