Donate Now I received an email tonight from one of the members of my 12-person learning group. She wanted to call this upcoming week of Institute “Friday Week.” Her theory was that, in the same way getting to Friday — the fifth day — has some magical, uplifting, energizing quality, so too should getting to…

Donate Now In my attempt to keep in touch, here comes week 3′s installment. First, Wednesday of this past week marked the official 50% mark of my Institute experience. On Thursday, though the schedule showed an afternoon of workshops, we actually got out of school at 1 pm for TFA Day — that’s Totally Free…

Alright, this week, it will be amazingly short compared to my chapter book published last week. This week we got our classrooms. I teach on a team of four people. I’m teaching algebra and such. The only problem is that I’m not getting much teaching done because my kids are having a really hard time…

What is this? I’m reposting my emails (exactly to the day) sent to family and friends during my summer 2006 Institute experience in Atlanta. TeachFor.Us didn’t exist at the time — hence the title. For some of you, this will be a trip down memory lane. For my hundreds of current readers, I hope you…