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Jessica Lander is an award-winning teacher, writer and author. She teaches history and civics to recent immigrant students in a Massachusetts public high school and has won numerous awards for her teaching, including being named a Top 50 Finalist for the Global Teacher Prize in 2021, presented by the Varkey Foundation and being named a MA Teacher of the Year Finalist in 2022, presented by the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Jessica writes frequently about education policy and teaching. She is the author of Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education, a coauthor of Powerful Partnerships: A Teacher’s Guide to Engaging Families for Student Success and the author of Dri ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Jessica Lander Whenever I find myself just staring at the screen unable to write or find the structure for a section of a chapter, I stop, close my computer and I ta…moreWhenever I find myself just staring at the screen unable to write or find the structure for a section of a chapter, I stop, close my computer and I take a walk with my wonderful golden retriever Mochi! Sometimes its a 15 minute walk, sometimes a 40 minute walk. I usually take my phone, but I turn off notifications. And often I find that within minutes of setting out along a trail or along a sidewalk, lines of text come to me or the structure of a particular chapter becomes clear. That is where the phone comes in. We'll pause, I'll pull out my phone, jot down the line in a note, and then keep walking. While writing "Making Americans" I often took one to two walks a day to do exactly this. (less)

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	Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education 4.53 avg rating — 110 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Driving Backwards 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are America Too: Voices of the Nation's Future 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars