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Mar 21 2009

Investment Fail

Donate Now Yesterday, I gave my students individual graphs that show their growth so far this year in reading. (Our class average growth so far this year is .94 years!) Most of my students have made pretty remarkable progress so far, but one student, G, has made literally no growth. When I say no growth,…

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Mar 16 2009

Spring Conference and Moving On

Donate Now This Saturday, we had the Bay Area Spring Conference, which is pretty much the last official TFA thing I will do as a corps member (with the exception of our Alumni Sendoff in the spring.) My first thought when I walked in the door? Damn, there are a lot of ’08 corps members.…

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Mar 09 2009

Overdue and Overstretched

I haven’t posted in a little while because, honestly, I didn’t feel I had much to post about. I’ve been very bogged down in the daily grind of the mid-second semester. I have been spending some time figuring out what I’m going to do next year, but until I get all my loose ends tied…

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"All that is gold does not glitter, not all who wander are lost." -J. R. R. Tolkien

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