Describe a moment when your students experienced an “Ah-Ha” or “light bulb” moment because of something you taught them.

• Did that moment grow from your experience as a Kenan Fellow? If so, how?

My initial Ah-Ha moment was not Kenan related yet I’ve had some that were related to Kenan Fellows. At the beginning of the school year i teach my students the Art of Annotation.  I tech 6th grade so when they come to me they are not fully aware of Close Reading of text and how to break it down more.  While I was teaching, the kids were complaining about taking notes in the margin, underlining text, putting a cloud around key vocabulary words, etc.  I kept enforcing the importance of annotation and about a month into school, I heard a group of kids say that Annotation of the text made them feel smarter because they were getting the answer right when I called on them in class.  At that moment I felt super proud of my students as well as myself.