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It is now the Saturday after my third week of teaching. I just woke up from a 12-hr night of sleep and I had a delicious breakfast of grits, biscuits and gravy, and coffee with ice cream. The Delta U cafeteria is growing on me I meant to update this blog last week when I was sure I had made a real breakthrough on Tuesday night and was going to have an AWESOME, perfect, beautiful Wednesday…and then that didn’t happen. However, this Thursday was good, and Friday was even better. But I’ll tell you about that soon…
Institute may be the hardest thing I’ve ever done–actually, it IS the hardest thing I’ve ever done–but it has taught me so much invaluable information about the achievement gap, about myself, and about the value and challenge of being a teacher. I’ve learned about everything from how backwards planning works to how…
On the first day of institute in MIssissippi, a wise CMA (Corps member adviser) told me, “Institute is like standing under a waterfall with a dixie cup.” After 2 weeks, I can admit that’s the perfect analogy for how this place works. The first week of institute was intense in the sense that we were…
read more »Three weeks ago, my mom and I drove from Pittsburgh to Nashville with my life packed in my car. We explored the city the day before Induction and checked out the Parthenon, Broadway, Vanderbilt, Lipscomb, and the schools where I was scheduled to interview the next day. My first impression of Nashville was, “It’s hot…
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