Pittsburg Excessive College English instructor Brandon Lawson hopes to share data that he spends numerous hours researching. He began by writing a weblog that listed sources to assist others, which has now was a web site that he always updates with concepts.

“The concept for my web site happened after I had hassle getting my blogs revealed on instructional web sites,” Lawson mentioned. “I made a decision to create my very own weblog and supply extra than simply op-eds. I wished to create one thing that will be helpful for academics and supply useful sources.”

The location, known as teachlift.com, gives data on instructing ideas, lesson plans, profession {and professional} growth, wellness, well-being and scholar sources. Lawson mentioned he got here up with concepts for the location’s sources by fascinated with widespread issues academics face and what he would need as a instructor.

“I attempted to offer useful sources for issues resembling curriculum planning, recommendations on classroom administration, constructing relationships with college students and extra,” he mentioned.

A latest enterprise administration graduate from Cal State East Bay, Lawson has give you the concepts for his web site from first instructing Eleventh- and Twelfth-grade English and now instructing Tenth-grade English.

“Typically what I realized from Pittsburg Excessive College was the place to begin. Then from there, I branched off with the data to do my very own analysis to give you extra concepts,” he mentioned.

When he first began the location, Lawson was making an attempt so as to add as a lot content material as doable, however now he goals so as to add new content material no less than as soon as every week. Going ahead, he wish to add much more content material and publish a number of occasions every week.

Whereas the data on his web site targets academics generally and his expertise is primarily with highschool instructing, he says he believes the sources on his web site will be useful for all academics. Customers can entry the menu on the Train Elevate web site to flick thru completely different sections. Every part has hyperlinks to sources, web sites and recommendations on the chosen subject.

Though many of the content material on the location is developed by Lawson, he has accepted strategies from fellow academics whereas establishing the location. He does settle for concepts and content material submissions from academics and college students. Subscriptions can be found for notifications by way of e mail every time new content material is posted, and there’s no payment for accessing the data on the location.

Lawson was born and raised in Antioch and is a proud graduate of Antioch Excessive College. He’s additionally a science fiction creator with a not too long ago launched younger grownup dystopian novel, “Nova’s Blade.” As well as, Lawson has an upcoming kids’s e book known as “Adventures of Thunder Woman.”

He enjoys a well-rounded life-style, together with time on the gymnasium, movie show, writing and studying. He’s not solely a instructor and author but in addition has a ardour for filmmaking and plans to make an impartial internet sequence on his YouTube channel this summer season.

Crab feed fundraiser: The Community of Care group is internet hosting its seventeenth annual crab feed March 11, with all proceeds benefiting the group, which feeds households of kids in hospitals. The door will open at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. The occasion will embrace raffle prizes, a dessert and a silent public sale.

Tickets for the occasion in Pittsburg’s Good Shepherd Parish Corridor are $75 and have to be purchased upfront. Contact Janet Frazier at 925-584-4086 or emailing janetfraz123@gmail.com to RSVP and for seating preparations. For extra particulars, go to bit.ly/noc2023crabfeed on-line.

Roni Gehlke will be reached at oakleynow@comcast.internet.