Rebecca+Egler

Hi everyone! My name is Rebecca Egler and I'm excited to be taking a class with so many secondary teachers in order to swap ideas and experiences. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY but I did my undergrad at the University of Michigan I studied History and Community Action and Social Change. As much as I love Ann Arbor, I'm certainly glad to be back in New York. I currently teach 11th grade US history at a charter school in West Harlem - which is a fabulously easy commute since I live in East Harlem. If I had to be something other than a teacher, I'd be a florist. (Actually, that's a lie, it's just been my stock answer for desired career since I was 11 - realistically I'd probably be a social worker.) As a teacher, I enjoy more than anything getting to know my students as people, and despise more than anything organizing, grading and making bulletin boards - somethings that I hope to... one day... learn to love? I am both relieved and excited to be taking a class on literacy in adolescence as my students are so much more excited and invested the idea of multiple choice than writing - and it's a real shame that they love the boring one, especially because they don't realize how much potential they have to be writers and thinkers! I hope to be able to learn how to better help my students unleash the historical writers within themselves through this class, and I look forward to working with all of you.