{"id":193,"date":"2023-04-04T03:13:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T03:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shutupandteachedu.com\/?page_id=193"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:14:12","slug":"connect-with-elijah","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/?page_id=193","title":{"rendered":"About Elijah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;margin-top:0;margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:0;margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">Hello there! Thank you for visiting my page! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a teacher who followed in the footsteps of teachers in my family. I have served as an educator in my home state of New Mexico since 2014, and I am currently an MLSS (Multi-Layered Systems of Support) Resource Teacher for the Albuquerque Public Schools district. During my 10 years as a classroom teacher and reading interventionist, I devoted myself to ensuring that my students knew they were loved and that they loved school. I believe school should be a place of excitement and learning, not one without the other. Through positive teacher-student relationships and by applying best practices I learned in professional development, I gave my students the most engaging, fun, and meaningful learning experiences I could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I captured and shared my love and passion for teaching in my book, <em><strong>A Place They Love: Creating a Healthy School Culture and Positively Impacting Students<\/strong><\/em>, published in 2022 by EduMatch Publishing. I am the host of the retired podcast, The Shut Up and Teach Podcast. On this podcast, I shared more of my learning and teaching experiences and highlighted the voices of educators from across the United States who were guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a very early age, I have been very fond of poetry and song lyrics. I often wrote songs and poems throughout my teen and college years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I began to write much more personal and emotional poetry. In 2024, I self-published <em><strong>Stories in My Scars: Poems<\/strong><\/em>, with poems written between 2020 and 2024. I continued my self-publishing journey in 2026, releasing <em><strong>Of the Innocent: Poems<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Connect with me:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email (education): shutupandteachedu@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email: poemsbyelijahcarbajal@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"920\" height=\"1494\" src=\"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Me-and-Nala.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-601\" style=\"width:478px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elijah and Nala<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there! Thank you for visiting my page! I am a teacher who followed in the footsteps of teachers in my family. I have served as an educator in my home state of New Mexico since 2014, and I am currently an MLSS (Multi-Layered Systems of Support) Resource Teacher for the Albuquerque Public Schools district. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-193","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}