This year I have an intern teacher in my classroom throughout the year. It is similar to a medical residency, where he shadows me and then begins to take over more and more of the teaching work. I thoroughly enjoy talking about teaching, but the real benefits are more tangible. 1. I can go to…
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Letting my weakness’ show is a muscle I flex
this was a short piece I wrote last summer for the “Jumpstart Odyssey” assignment for the Calderwood writing fellowship: The Strength of Weakness “For Amily to be able to enter into third grade, she must be able to write cursive. Our second graders at the Learning Project have already learned this skill. Amily will fall…
what are we staying so damn healthy for
My maternal grandmother passed away a little less than a year ago, my paternal grandmother is thriving and alive and will be ninety in September. My grandfathers passed during my younger years. Being a history teacher is an oddity, I live in the lives of the past, considering the decisions, changes, impacts, meteors of that…
time out of my busy day
“Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to email us – we greatly appreciate it.” A note at the end of an email from a parent. An email I initiated, an email that I wrote simply to note a student’s improvement, and a confession that she made in class that she…
Achievement Gap to real talk: Resource Gap
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/education/education-gap-grows-between-rich-and-poor-studies-show.html Ah the eternal quest for the cure, but is the disease racism or poverty. The economists and Marxists declare that it money is the virus, tearing down our immune system of liberty and justice. Sociologists and cultural theorists have traced race to be patient X. Those who maintain a holistic view of our society,…
collective failure 