This weekend I was able to help administer tests to incoming scholars in order to determine if they would benefit from extra help during our summer school session. It made me see more than ever that educational inequity is plainly evident and is all around us. The literature says that students in high-need areas come…
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I’m addicted to running. I can’t imagine life without it. However, it is extremely time consuming. Each day I go out for a run that can be anywhere from 1 hour to 2.5 hours. Often, I think about how I could be using that more than 10 hours per week to complete other items on…
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So, of course as part of Teach for America my number one focus is fighting educational inequity, though I can’t help but wonder…what will my students call me? My last name is long, and I mean LONG. It is 15 letters: Mojtabaeezamani (pronounced Moe-ch-ta-by-ee-za-ma-knee). It’s hard for most adults to master, so can I really…
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I thought the couple of months leading up to my acceptance into Teach for America had been nerve-wrecking and hectic. There was the application that I kept reading over and over thinking there was some major typo I was overlooking. Then, there was the phone interview and online activity (I can’t remember which came first,…
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I’ve never been more happy to receive a B. An 86%. 120/140. I remember back to my 10th grade year of high school when I received my first B and was absolutely devastated. It was in a Biology course, and I was convinced the world was ending. Fast forward to college, and the occasional B…
read more »Hello All, This is my first blog…like ever and as you can tell, I’m super excited about it. I plan to use this to laud, vent, and well utterly ramble as the page title states. Sadly, as training has not started yet, I have no real insight to share with you about TFA just yet…
read more »It’s been a while since I’ve blogged on here. It’s been a busy, crazy year, but I’ve finally managed to pull something coherent. In the past couple of months, I’ve had quite a lot of experiences that have shaped my opinions on not only my experience as a corps member, but on Teach For America…
read more »To be honest, I’ve been struggling. This struggle is constant. i was reminded of this struggle as I tried to sleep last night. You see, today was the first day back from a holiday. Did I sleep? Hell, no! I maybe slept 2 hours. I was anxious. I would sleep for 10 minutes…
read more »I discovered this tonight and it shattered me into a million pieces: ” Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and achieve no result…
read more »I’ve sat down probrably a dozen times since institute to blog on this site. Before joining this movement, I loved and lived social media. Life as a first year intervened, and I couldn’t quite put into words what this experience has meant to me. I’ve learned so much. I’ve had a ton of lows, and…
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