Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Is Our Children Learning?

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Check it out. I am thankful for my readership. I feel connected to an educational blog community- which feels great to be a part of. Some...
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Monday, October 22, 2007

Young revolutionaries

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It feels so good to, as Jose said, partake in “intelligent dialogue and thorough action.” Jena 6 is on the topic of my mind. It has been e...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Week 7

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Today was disastrous. At one point, I just sat in my chair, mouth shut, and just listened to the chaos, witnessed the dance moves, and took...
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Thursday, October 4, 2007

The 3 day weekend that I wish wasn't

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We should have school on Monday. These kids should be learning instead of honoring someone who doesn’t deserve anything good to be mentione...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

In response to the problematic comments to the post, "Problematic" (sigh)

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I had to sit on this for a full day. Let me start with the Jena 6- (of which I did a lesson on today thanks to the responses to my blog- so...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Problematic

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"Sometimes I just want to handcuff him to the table," was the description of his Science teacher.  "I just hate him," ba...
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Saturday, September 22, 2007

My life is all I have

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Ok so check it out. Detention is bullshit. For how progressive and liberal my school is (or claim to be), they (that’s messed up how I ref...
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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Advocacy

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I was trying. I was trying hard. One thing that stood out to me the most during my pre-service classes at my university was the necessity ...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Beginning of my NYC teaching career

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My first week and a half of teaching in New York City has been possibly the most amazing ten days of my life. The energy of my students, th...
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Monday, August 13, 2007

Follow up to "On meeting Fellows who just finished their first year"

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I appreciate all of the responses to the post, "On meeting Fellows who just finished their first year.” I would say that I probably c...
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Saturday, August 11, 2007

On meeting Fellows who just finished their first year

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I was disappointed. 8 or 9 Fellows who just finished their 1st year teaching came as guests to the last class of one of my university course...
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Friday, August 10, 2007

"I DON’T GIVE A FUCK IF I CAN’T READ"

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This excerpt if from a paper I wrote this summer for one of my graduate classes. "James" is a 14-year old boy in my 6 th grade s...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Allow me to re-introduce myself...

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I am a 25 year old African American male, and I have made the decision to continue my journey in life as a New York City Teaching Fellow. ...
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