I have been feeling so overwhelmed lately with my job and with life that I need to take this moment to celebrate a couple of interactions I had today with some students ( Read more... )

Your Expression Number is 5A total multi-tasker, you have a wide variety of talents ( Read more... )

I am slowly adjusting to life here. It has definitely taken me awhile, but with each passing day I feel a little better. Being in touch with Dava, has also helped a lot. It was incredibly difficult to communicate the first few days because of the bad phone line at the volunteer house and the afternoon rains which make it difficult to go to the ( Read more... )

Tell me your stories so that I can feel your strength rumble into my ears like a great earthquake. Tell me your stories so that I will no longer make excuses, hesitate, and remain paralyzed. May your words knock me off balance so that I lose my footing in the tide. May your words rush over me and carry me into the darkest depths of my fears until I ( Read more... )

At lunch, one of the teachers that I work with was complaining about the negative attitudes of three of our junior girls. (*She had experienced them earlier in the day during Advisory, but she was referring to their attitudes lately - and in general.) Needless to say, after hearing what she had to say (and already knowing - from first hand ( Read more... )

Almost all of my students had a difficult time settling down today. (I realize that this should come as no surprise given the fact that the end of the school year is quickly approaching. In some ways, I probably feel just as crazy as so many of my students act.) It took my last period class ten minutes to quiet down; eventually, however, we found ( Read more... )

The following quote is from Pamela Harrigan, director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship ( Read more... )

Today one of my students raised her hand to participate for the FIRST time this year! By the end of class, she had actually participated twice for the same activity. She even stayed in class, after the last period bell rang, to finish an in-class writing assignment. To these tiny miracles I say, "Welcome!"

I recently gave my students three days to work on their projects in class. There were three parts: 1.) a map of their neighborhood labeled in Spanish and colored; 2.) ten sentences describing what is going on in their pictures using regular -ar verbs and ten sentences using the verb estar talking about the location of one person/place in relation ( Read more... )

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