Michelle Jackson
Andrew Hamilton Elementary School
2025 Spring Enrollment: The Soviet World in Literature
Michelle Jackson has been teaching since 2007, and is currently at Andrew Hamilton Elementary School, where she teaches Life Skills to 6th-8th grade students. When asked what made her decide to apply to TIP, Jackson replied, “I truly love learning and teaching. TIP serves as a means to continue learning and also broaden information to enhance district curriculum and instruction.”
Currently, Jackson is enrolled in a seminar “The Soviet World in Literature.” Jackson says that, so far, she has learned about the impactful figures behind the Soviet Union’s 1920s and 1930s literary revolution, and their purposes in writing during that time.
Jackson has participated in previous TIP seminars “Children’s Literature and the Immigrant Experience” and “Music and Healing in Philadelphia,” and in the workshop “Cancer and Our Community.” Her involvement at Penn also includes teaching the Stress Less Initiative at the Netter Center for Community Partnerships.
Each seminar has impacted Jackson’s teaching in multiple ways. Regarding her current seminar she finds that, “I really enjoy this type of literature, and I know that my students will relate to the materials I learned about.”