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The next of my to-be-abandoned blogs
I don’t quite know how to approach this topic, so I thought I’d make it a thread and yield to the floor. I consider myself a feminist ally but I’m fairly new to the game so I often feel helpless in making any effective headway in combating sexism at school. I want to preface this…
read more »I might’ve mentioned this before, but I am serving as my campus’ UIL coordinator this year which means I get the distinct pleasure of arranging all of our academic competitions. Coaching academic events is not wholly unlike coaching athletics in that you place your kids into a zero-sum competitive environment. It is, however, a different…
read more »When you enter TFA, you start talking about the Big Goal. This is some quantitative measure which, if achieved, should ostensibly mean that your students are on a Transformational Path. I taught for one year prior to joining TFA. I absorbed my school’s low ranking, determined this year to pull us out of the doldrums. …
read more »Over the holidays, I’ve been thinking about our role as educators in our students’ lives. I think if you are called into this profession, one of the goals you have is to leave the world a better place than how you found it, and in teaching that means putting your students on a path that…
read more »At some point very soon, you will be saddled with the burden of becoming a highly effective teacher. I call this a burden because you will need to develop a patina of highly effective behaviors and techniques to which you are very likely not accustomed and this is, straight up, hard. These behaviors do not…
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