Donate Now 1) waking up at 5:30 to go shower in the cold frigid fire hose blast. Only two more weeks of that, thank goodness! I am sitting here at 6:38, slightly ahead of schedule, slightly concerned that i’m forgetting something important. 2) I only have two weeks left. I don’t know how it happened.…

Donate Now There comes a point in every CM’s time at institute where they stop being able to function properly and start crying. By leaking, I mean crying at inappropriate times due to stress. For me, that point was today, June 24th, though I guess now it is already June 25th. Because TFA teaches us…

Because it made me laugh, and because each of my students appears to have their own writing style. Question:Draw the Earth tilted on it’s axis toward/away from the Sun during winter. Write a sentence about the picture.” Student Response (because every class needs an environmentalist): “The sun is located to North and there is glaciers…

If you ever doubt that there is an education gap, think about the fact that I was asked that question by an emerging 6th grader the other day. She lives in Houston, Texas. We talked through where Houston was located (in Texas) and where Texas was located (in the United States) and she still couldn’t…

I have to admit, I have a crush on my teacher self. I do! Even though I’m sneezing/coughing up one of my lungs, I somehow find a way to be “solid, calm and firm” (according to my CMA–corps member advisor–) in front of my students. All 24 of them, 16 of whom are boys. One…

Today is Friday the 13th. It is the last day of my first week of institute. I began the week with a birthday, my own, which is something I never really enjoy. From this point on, my mood level could be classified on the a color scale of yellow, if we’re doing the behavior chart…