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a Teach for America science teacher in St. Louis
Donate Now My entire classroom was killed off in 2 hours. All posters, staplers, file holders, construction paper and everything else packed into my Nissan Sentra, which still has a flat tire. Saying goodbye to the students was sad. I’m glad that I, as team leader, just decided that we would have a town-hall meeting…
read more »Donate Now As I stop for a minute to write this, I’m packing up Room 212 at Long Middle School. Man, I have a lot of stuff. I don’t know where I’ll be going next — well at least not in the way of teaching. Literally, I know. All my coworkers are waiting for me…
read more »Througout my Teach for America training, the need for flexibility has been stressed. But, in my few short weeks on the job, no week has tried me more than this one on the point of being flexible. The sound of music This past Sunday, I had planned it all out. I was going to head…
read more »Ok. This week has been really trying. I just finished writing a REALLY long, detailed post to document the experience (over two hours of writing). When I clicked save, somehow the whole thing got overwritten. I don’t think that I can bring myself to write it all again with all the flair and poetic drama.…
read more »I find myself always wanting to remind myself of something important in the future. I’ve stumbled upon an amazing tool to do just this… FutureMe.org. Basically, you write an email now that gets sent to you in the future. Pure genious. I’ll have to remind myself to use this. Oh wait, I can just write…
read more »Walking into a glass sliding door can really take you by surprise. I mean you’re going about your business, and then you get smacked — unsuspectingly — smack dab in the middle of your face (read: brute force to nose). This is what happened to me last week. It’s no secret at this point that…
read more »I’ve been taking pause to make sure that my “next post” would adequately capture the craziness of what’s going on with me right now. I was feeling guilty that I haven’t written in about a week. But tonight, the wait proved to be worth it.
read more »After my long weekend (three days) of my long first week (five days), I returned to work today. That’s a good first step. My first surprise today was the number of new students who decided to come to school. Maybe they missed the memo, advertisements on the radio, billboards, letters home, newspaper articles, etc., informing…
read more »I thought I knew what it mean to work hard at a job. I thought I knew what it meant to be wholly consumed by work in a fulfilling way. I thought I knew what it meant to be tired yet ready to start going again. I thought I knew what it meant to motivated.…
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