Last week, our school held it’s first slam poetry night. To say the least, I was blown away. For the very first time, I got to hear students’ voices through art. And though there is no arts program here, these students were nothing less than creative, dramatic, and inspiring. Though not many people went to…
read more »Today is a new year Everything is in the clear We’re given a chance to right our wrongs To start up strong (and maybe play more math songs?) It may be hard to get back in SHAPE But promise me you’ll do whatever it takes Let’s work together to set the bar Set our expectations…
read more »Sometimes I feel like I have it worse than my students. This past week especially, I’ve been waking up disillusioned by the fact that break is coming to an end. I premeditated this, which was why I planned to arrive back in Miami on Sunday, 5pm–less than a day before school starts. Was that the…
read more »There must be something wrong with me. I’m not taking advantage of winter break to lesson plan for the rest of the year. Though its in the back of my mind, I haven’t been plotting a revolution for the 2013 year. Revolution in the sense that I have to uproot everything that I’ve done this…
read more »Yes, I’m cheezy. I wrote a math song for my Geometry class. I wanted them to be able to remember angle relationships formed by transfersals. What better way to turn it into a love song?? Here are the lyrics: If I were an ordinary supplementary angle, would you add up to 180 make a line…
read more »The other day, I got a comment from a student saying, “Why do I even need this (math), I’m going to be a lawyer.” At that time I was caught off guard because, well, I was in the middle of a lesson. But mostly because I didn’t have a well developed argument on why math…
read more »Hello world! This is a long overdue blog about my experience as a first year corps member in Miami. Yep, it’s already December and I’m halfway through my first year of 10th grade Geometry. This next week will be my last week of teaching in 2012 before I go back to Los Angeles to spend…
read more »This is honestly mindblowing. The mind boggles. It’s Sunday, so naturally I have no time to write about this, but just…. what the hell? http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012/10/12/florida-passes-plan-for-racially-based-academic-goals/
read more »[Yes, I am aware that is it like... Week 7? 8? Who knows... this is, as always, after the fact...] My One True Victory from Day 1 So I realized that I have failed to mention on this blog perhaps my absolute greatest triumph from Day 1 of teaching. This one small act has probably…
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