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muffin meets the apple: July 2009
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Muffin meets the apple. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree - martin luther. Thursday is the new Friday. My kids, you know, they're rowdy. They've got lots of problems, and today was a hard day but at the end I stepped back, thought about it, and I thought to myself. you know, I can do this.". What I wasn't prepared for was the look of sheer defeat that so many of my kids exhibit. They have so much working against them, how can I judge them?
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muffin meets the apple: everything was beautiful.
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Muffin meets the apple. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree - martin luther. Today was a hard day. The more I learn about my students' home lives (or lack thereof), the more I feel this deep sense of. something. Helplessness? He explained, "this job wears on you.". It's definitely wearing on me. October 29, 2009 at 7:17 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Teaching: By Any Means Necessary. New York City Teaching Fellows. So over this week.
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muffin meets the apple: oh hey there, disillusionment phase.
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Muffin meets the apple. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree - martin luther. Oh hey there, disillusionment phase. This graph is from an article titled 'The Evolution of a Teacher". I'm sure my fellow educators out there will recognize it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm R: high school teacher, roller derby player, cat person, quasi-foodie, Memphian by birth, Arkansan at heart, New Yorker by choice. Pleased to meet you.
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muffin meets the apple: May 2011
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Muffin meets the apple. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree - martin luther. It's been real, NYCTF. Last week, I trekked up to the Bronx for my last class meeting of grad school. I was scheduled to present my thesis to my classmates, but when I got to the classroom, I found that class had been canceled. Myself and two of my classmates were the only ones to not get the message in time - it was an anticlimactic end to a hard two years. So, now what?
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StealthisScreenname: There's no software solution to this?
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10 January, 2012. There's no software solution to this? Well it has been a minute since I've been here and like any job, my teaching responsibilities have changed quite a bit in the 3.5 years I've been working. Oh, no? In other jobs they don't change your responsibilities and tell you about it the day before you come back from a vacation? One more bonus to being a teacher. What brings me back is that I have reached out to teachers I know, teachers I don't know and classmates and professors at my previous...
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StealthisScreenname: August 2010
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31 August, 2010. I had an interesting conversation with a friend yesterday. I went on ARIS to look at what I'm teaching and which students are in which classes. It was mostly what I expected- classes of 34 (and one of 35? Organized only by level. Not by grade, not by past experiences in the school, not by which students have failed the same classes 3 years in a row because they cut the last 2 periods every day. 29 August, 2010. Summer vacation= sunday morning tv. I will watch any show Christiane Amanpour...
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StealthisScreenname: June 2012
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09 June, 2012. To celebrate Brooklyn/Queens day in traditional educator fashion, I spent my day at a Professional Development. For the first time since I’ve worked at my school, they decided everyone should attend a content-related PD. Fabulous! I’ll get to explore some things I haven’t looked at since completing my MAT. Or not. My supervisor let me know that I (along with the music and drama teachers) would attend PD with the ELA department. We would, of course, be looking at the CCLS.
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Taking the Long Way: May 2009
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Taking the Long Way. Saturday, May 16, 2009. AND multicultural week the way its DONE! Playing with the chickies! It is very therapeutic, I am seriously contemplating getting a class pet for next year! Close up of some chick lovin. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHa. the truth hurts:). This is Dark. Edwin named him before he came out and I think all of the love Edwin gave the egg made him come out just as Edwin named him, dark.:). Not even one day old:). EGG hatching in steps. Practicing for our exhibit! Around Christmas...
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muffin meets the apple: April 2009
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Muffin meets the apple. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree - martin luther. The waiting period, part 1. I can't wait to tell you what comes next. Welcome to my little patch of net-heaven. You can call me R; I'm a Tennessee native, an Arkansas transplant, and a soon-to-be New Yorker. I'm also a roller derby player and enthusiast, a queer activist, a cat person, a non-hipster-identified hipster-music lover, and a foodie. But none of that is why I'm ...
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Itinerant Life: Splashing Down
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Main Entry: itin·er·ant Function: adjective Etymology: Late Latin : traveling from place to place; especially : covering a circuit. Friday, June 21, 2013. If you haven’t already, read my. For part 1 of this saga. And I’ve loved the times I’ve conducted training in the corporate world. I began volunteering as an SAT tutor, and my time in the classroom was just as fulfilling as I had imagined. Are you going to finish this story before the next 48 weeks expire? You really left me hanging? Macy's 4th of July...