For about a month now I have been on a slow decline into that blessed, peaceful, state of “Summer.” After my final IEP meeting of the year, squaring away all of my boys’ summer school plans, one last round of progress monitoring, reading assessments, and data reporting, my brain has concluded that it is just…
read more »So now for the big questions: What is Teach for America? What will I be doing as a part of the movement? Teach for America is an organization that recruits successful college students and post college leaders to teach in some of the nation’s neediest classrooms. They are a huge agent in the movement for…
read more »An introduction. This is an obligatory post. I’ve been behind in terms of actually being able to post anything, so the next couple of posts will cover last week’s journey until I get up to speed. I thought about just posting the first reflection I wrote, but then I realized that so many people, my…
read more »I’m the only Midwesterner among my Marked Tree CM colleagues. We have a few New Yorkers, like real city kids, and last night I held a crash course in car disasters. I can tell you they were all for sure missing their public transportation. It went down like this: after wrapping up our community visit…
read more »Keeping my head up. There are many update to be had, particularly about: Recent required three day professional development about common core The first official LEAD 21 Walton Leader Scholar seminar last weekend (AKA re-introduction to grad school) The major game-changers that have happened for my job Instructions to get involved in the revamped, revised,…
read more »And this news could not have come at a better time. Let’s just say the past few days have been stressful. Having planned to leave my belongings in my roommate’s apartment until I returned from Institute, I finished the paperwork I needed for registration, did some pre-work, and started packing my luggage. I was even…
read more »“It’s see you later Ms. H, not goodbye!” N used to tell me this every single day before I hugged her and dropped her off at the bus to go home for the day. Even though she said it to me everyday, I always forgot to make sure to say “see you later.” But on…
read more »I had a student last year, one of my favorites, who did not speak to me until October. She really didn’t start talking to me regularly until January. This kid tested in the 0.5 percentile for oral language skills, which means if you put 2,000 kids in a room, she would be the worst of…
read more »Moving to the Delta Step 1: Packing for Institute Hey. I’m just packing my life into a storage unit while I complete my 5-week Institute Training in Cleveland, MS, which is quite scary enough for me thankyouverymuch. It is overwhelming in many ways, two of which are very distinct. First, packing is scary because I…
read more »I finished up my role as a collaboration teacher at my school today, and gave my final Japanese and French lessons to two different classes. As a final presentation to the students, I showed them some of the calligraphy that I made while I was studying it in Japan. I have a few works I…
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