First let me say that this post contains my opinion as a private citizen, not as an MCS teacher or TFA Corps Member. This opinion is in no way affiliated with those organizations. Consolidation. The proposed consolidation of Memphis and Shelby County Schools has been this areas top news story for weeks. Even national news [...]
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That Dirty 13-Letter Word
Posted in In the Classroom, Memphis Pride, tagged Consolidation, Education, MCS, Memphis, Memphis City Schools, SCS, Shelby County Schools, The Achievement Gap on March 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
So What?
Posted in Growing Up, In the Classroom, Memphis Pride, tagged Charity, Donors Choose, Education reform, How to fix education, How to help education, Mentoring, Teach for America, Teach: Tony Danza, The Lottery, Waiting for Superman on December 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
So maybe you’ve seen Waiting for Superman. Maybe you saw the Oprah about the movie. Maybe you saw The Lottery. Maybe you saw Precious. Maybe you saw The Blind Side, Stand and Deliver, Freedom Writers, etc. Even on TV, we have shows like School Pride and Teach: Tony Danza. Education is very in right now. [...]
First Impression
Posted in Growing Up, In the Classroom, tagged Education, Education reform, Educators, Math, Special Education, Student, Teach for America, Teacher on November 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The more students that I meet, the more I realize that students love to be smart. There are students that seem to be completely opposed to everything in class. They hardly fill out notes. They will not try questions on their own. They have a bad attitude every time that I try to push them. [...]
Waiting to be Super
Posted in In the Classroom, tagged Bill Gates, Education reform, Geoffrey Canada, John Legend, Michelle Rhee, Teach for America, Waiting for Superman on November 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, I had the pleasure of going to a screening of the new education documentary Waiting for “Superman”. The film is named for a comment from Geoffrey Canada about when he learned that Superman was not real. He was living in the inner-city of the Bronx, and he was always just assuming that someone [...]
Greenlight for Greenline
Posted in In the Classroom, Memphis Pride, tagged Binghampton, Cycling, Greenway, Memphis Greenline, Memphis Outdoors, Rail trail, Rails to Trails, Shelby Farms, Shelby Farms Greenline, Wolf River on October 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Memphis Greenline, Greenway, Greenspace, or whatever is finally opening this weekend. This is the latest addition to Memphis’s Rails to Trails projects. The trail starts at Tillman near my high school and runs 7 miles to Shelby Farms park. This trail is an amazing addition to Memphis for lots of reasons. People in the [...]
Back in Blue
Posted in Growing Up, In the Classroom, Memphis Pride, tagged Education, high school, Memphis, Teach for America, TFA, The Achievement Gap on September 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
. . . Blazers that is. I got the chance to speak at my high school, Memphis University School, last Friday about the Teach for America program. I was excited to do this because I am passionate about this program, and I am passionate about my high school. I believe very strongly in the education [...]
I’m Baaaaaack (In a T.I. Voice)
Posted in In the Classroom, tagged Cross Country, Student, T.I., Teacher on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A summer of being a Zoo camp counselor has led me back to my home at EHS molding minds and taking names. Being back the second year did nothing for my nerves, but once school hit it was hard to even compare this year and last year. I think the main difference Is more positive [...]
Make New Friends But Keep the Old . . .
Posted in In the Classroom, tagged 2010 Memphis Corps, New Teachers, Teach for America 2010, Teach for America Memphis on June 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We have received our new crop of TFAers into Memphis. 106 corps members strolled, rolled, and strutted into Memphis to begin their Teach for America training. This is huge for Memphis, especially because of the fact that this corps is double the size of my corp. Twice the number of students get the chance to [...]
May May Hurry Past
Posted in In the Classroom on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This post if my second to last newsletter that I do for TFA in Memphis. I wanted to do a post. I am also lazy. Hence, I am posting it here. I will do a more full post after we get all of our test results back. The end of the year is approaching quickly, [...]
I’m floating in a most peculiar way
Posted in In the Classroom on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The weeks of review are over. Testing week is about half over. I had students going in confident because they have seen themselves perform at the level they need to. I am very proud of the consistent work they have put in from daily tutoring to even coming on some Saturdays. That other group of [...]
