I told Facebook; now the only place left to tell is my blog, my sadly neglected little blog: I’ve been accepted to law school – UConn and University of Oklahoma. Everyone expects me to be overjoyed; I expected me to be overjoyed. But I feel like the dog who chases cars. He wouldn’t have any…
read more »My desert-island song might be “Carry Me, Ohio” by Sun Kil Moon (aka Mark Kozelek); that is, the one song that I could potentially listen to for the rest of my life and nothing else. The song has these repetitive arpeggiated chords that give it a hypnotic quality, like train wheels on old tracks. The…
read more »I love my kids. I mean, I would take a bullet for my kids. Each and every single one of them. Teaching is the greatest thing in the world. I am learning more about them. They come to my room before school, and during lunch. They make me smile. I want the world for them.…
read more »When TFA staff mention investment, it’s like everyone conjures this picture of himself, looking faraway and visionary while his students cheer and swoon.
read more »So, what do you teach? Not the easiest question to answer. I usually answer with what we are studying at the time, which right now is gender roles, how gender roles affect our lives, and how the media perpetuates these roles. We start each day with a morning circle. Everyone sits in a circle and…
read more »MY LAST DAY OF INSTITUTE IS TOMORROW! I am really quite excited, even though I am surprisingly attached to my students that I have only known for 4 weeks. I ended up teaching at Mott Hall Bronx, which is a new summer school site for TFA this summer. I taught 25 students who all failed…
read more »Institute is hard!!!!!!!!!
read more »This week has been out of control. I have slept less than 5 hours a night. Lesson planning is hard and I get little feedback except that I need to do them over. I am having more problems with content than I thought- I need to research what everything is that I’m teaching extensively before…
read more »When I have told the new 2011 CMs that I just finished my 6th year in the classroom, I get these awed looks. I always feel slightly embarrassed by that reaction. If you’ve read Outliers by Gladwell, you’d understand my hesitation to let anyone call me an expert. Also, considering the number of subjects I’ve…
read more »So far so good! St. Johns is pretty nice, and the rooms are plenty big enough. We haven’t gotten in to the nitty gritty yet, but once we do, I’m sure I won’t be quite as relaxed. I’m teaching Living Environment (aka biology) in a school in I believe Brooklyn, but I am not entirely…
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