Over the course of a school year, there are thousands of things that a student attending school in a low-income community deals with that his or her more financially stable counterparts don’t. From lack of parental support to poor nutrition, gang violence to high teacher turnover, the kids that I have become so close to…
read more »I had intended to post here about my experience student teaching at least once a week. My last post was a rather depressing one, regarding my questioning my effectiveness as a teacher and wondering what I could do to reach my students. Weeks later, I sit here at my desk knowing that today is my…
read more »Y’all, this is getting ridiculous. Again, I find myself in the Broadway Starbucks of Little Rock. Thinking about what life this summer could look like if I lived here, thinking about how I can lift myself up, thinking about the world at large and how we operate within it. I have a journal open in…
read more »The school year is beginning to wind down. This week we began administering state standardized testing. The feeling is like having prepared a team for the championships and its about to go in for the big game. So far, I have been favorably impressed by the sense of determination and focus I’ve seen in the…
read more »I think I am slowly losing cognitive function. This is being written on a clipboard on Day 2 (of 3) of district benchmark testing. If you don’t know, that means we have to give long, painful, multiple choice tests three times a year that, theoretically, predict performance on the state test. I can think of…
read more »So I have been reading A LOT! One of the perks of owning an iPad and a Nook in China is being able to download e-books. It is one of the many ways that I feel I can stay connected to the world. Anywho – as a Hunger Games fan, I find myself drawn to dystopian and…
read more »Recent events: I finished my second grad class of my master’s in ed leadership, a finance class. Glory be. I enjoyed it, but this on-line jazz gets me crazy because I consistently miss deadlines and confuse calendars and don’t check any grades until the very end. One of my classes met their writing goal square…
read more »It’s been so long since I’ve posted that I almost forgot how to log into this blog. I feel guilty about not having posted in so long. I hope it’s not a sign that, while in law school, I’ve “forgotten” about my longer-term commitment (and the very reason I went to law school): educational justice.…
read more »This morning I woke up in New Orleans, in Leaf’s bed with the tiniest bit of rain outside. I opened my eyes and, after recovering from being slightly disoriented in a new state, consciously thought about how I didn’t feel good. This is spring break, this is 10 degrees warmer than already-warm Arkansas, this is…
read more »Tomorrow I have an interview. I am so nervous. My husband keeps reassuring me that I should not have a problem. I have made it this far. I think the fact that the place that I interview is where I will be for the next two years is a bit daunting. I just hope that…
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