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Institute Day 1:
ACRONYMS
If I needed to sum up institute so far in one word, if would have to be acronyms. Our end of day “fun” was an acronym assessment, which was a PARTIAL list of 18 acronyms! Sitting in on a TFA “Core” (being an instructional session, led by either your CMA, SD, CS, or LS) is like listening to a foreign language class. You’re being pumped full of info on the TAL rubric, the AIM, the Takeaway, the CMWBAT objectives, etc., etc.! But in all reality, once you master the lingo, you realize just how much support is built into this…
(and other randomness) So this is kind of a post-dated entry, but the record is there, nonetheless. I just spent Monday and Tuesday in Baltimore at the BCPSS Hiring Fair. WHAT A MADHOUSE! It is a mark of just how desperately Charm City needs something like TFA, even if it is only to funnel teachers…
read more »So it’s been a little while since I updated…Since the last post I have finished finals, and am in the meat of my pre-institute work. I’m also reading pretty much anything I can get my hands on about teaching, first-year teaching, and education inequity. This inspired the book I just finished (literally five minutes prior…
read more »The Inspiring story of one of the worst schools in the Bronx, and the man who turned things around. After 6 principals in two years, Shimon Waronker, a Chabad-Lubavitch Hassidic Jew, came in and shook things up. Born in Santiago Chile, former U.S. Army captain Waronker has come into the community to connect with parents,…
read more »The longest two weeks of my life have finally come to an end. The wait between my final interview with TFA… and the invitation to join the 2008 Corps in Baltimore, as (tentatively) a secondary school French teacher. As anyone who knows me can confirm, I have basically been obsessed with Teach For America since…
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