I teach! I’m strongly considering using the note card confession trend as an introduction during the first week or so. Click the link for a video my colleagues created. I cant figure out how to embed the video here.
read more »“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~Author Unknown This post will be short- almost as short as my temper was when I discovered that my new phone had been “lost” by my local FedEx two weeks ago. Basically, I was finishing up a great week shortened due to the…
read more »Last week, as I was reflecting on my role in the movement for educational equity, I randomly thought about the children’s story about the “The Little Engine That Could.” I loved reading this story as a kid. There are different versions but basically, a long, stranded train is unable to find an engine capable and…
read more »I haven’t had much to say lately; and, by that I mean I have had a lot on my mind but haven’t been able to coherently formulate my many thoughts about teaching recently. Honestly, I’m just tired of being beaten down by the social forces of highly concentrated poverty. I’ve long accepted that as a…
read more »My project (i.e. self-proclaimed long lost son) didn’t do well (or as well as he is capable of!) for the 1st semester. He received an A- in my class the 2nd quarter after stepping up his game, but his GPA was pretty low. He was sitting outside my classroom door when I came back from…
read more »Is this thing on? I’ve been reading a bunch of TFA statistics, other blogs on teachforus, and their experiences during their first two years but I’m pretty curious about life after your first two years. Ideally, I want to be a teacher for a substantial portion of my life. How do I best accomplish this? What else…
read more »Today was a great day! Today, we were blessed by Bess. My school was visited by Bess the Book Bus, a “mobile literacy outreach dedicated to getting books into the homes of underprivileged and underrepresented children and families.” The bus travels to schools across America, giving away free books to children and often conducting engaging…
read more »Today, over 65 volunteers gathered for three hours of service at Roosevelt High School. Several teachers and students came to represent the school but the majority of the crowd was comprised of citizens from the surrounding neighborhoods of Shaw and Tower Grove(s) East and South. The law firm of Bryan Cave LLC and the TALX…
read more »“It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life…we must remember that intelligence is not…
read more »True life, my kids say fantastic things. One of the things I’d say has changed the most between my first and second year of teaching is my ability to relate to and laugh with my kids. I went from becoming frustrated and annoyed when they were constantly laughing and joking to participating along with them…
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