I apologize for not updating in quite a while. My computer broke in the middle of our first few days of training in Dallas, and it’s taken forever to get it fixed. My parents mailed me an old netbook of mine, which I am now using as the other one gets fixed. I was counting…
read more »Here’s a quick read on the Huffington Post that sums up all of the counter-arguments I try to give: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alyssa-granacki/in-defense-of-teach-for-a_b_1749879.html?fb_action_ids=578040926146&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map={%22578040926146%22%3A10151067650107346}&action_type_map={%22578040926146%22%3A%22og.likes%22}&action_ref_map=[]&utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
read more »but you can’t take the Scav Hunt out of the girl. One of the things that I realized at Institute is that I really have to start liking living in Dallas in order for me to be able to invest 100% in my students and my role here. It’s been a rough adjustment, but last…
read more »Hello everyone. Sorry for the very long lapse in blogging. I got swamped in things to do with the end of Institute, the move to Dallas, my visit to Chicago, and the beginning of “First Eight Weeks” training that I haven’t gotten around to publishing an update. I had a very long post backed up…
read more »I am so sorry to not have updated in such a long time, once again. Teaching has been going super well. According to my supervisors, I’ve completely turned my classroom around in the past week since I sat down and came up with ways to improve what was going on. I still have to work…
read more »Again, I find very little time to blog as the focus becomes on turning my classroom around, but I feel like I should get some sort of update together. Since it’s been so long, this post won’t have an organizing theme, just different little snippets, probably in no particular order. Internal and external reasons: Today…
read more »I keep not having time to write a lengthy post, or really email anyone back. If it’s not one thing it’s another. I’ve finished my second week of teaching at Dowling Middle School. I think over the weekend I am going to be thinking long and hard about how to turn my classroom around, because…
read more »So today I taught three classes – mine, and those of other corps members who went to visit KIPP today. It went better than I thought it would be, and now all of that is over and I am back to just teaching my kids, except for tomorrow where I will have to visit another…
read more »I’m holding myself to sleep at 1AM tonight because I’m teaching two extra classes in addition to my own tomorrow, but I just wanted to give a brief update. This morning was almost just as bad as yesterday even though I didn’t have any students and it had to do with other things, but I…
read more »Let me count the ways. 1. By the third day of induction, 100% of DFW corps members were placed. No other TFA region could boast such a record so early. And while I may be mistaken, I don’t think our fellow regions at institute have met that goal to this day (Houston, San Antonio, Rio Grande Valley,…
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