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Shit Our Students Say, in (approximately) 3 words.
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Teach the Books, Touch the Heart →
“In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I’ve taught kids with incarcerated parents, abusive parents, neglectful parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless or who live in crowded apartments in violent neighborhoods; kids who grew up in developing countries. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel’s terrible logic — the giving way of dreams to fate.”
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What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali →
An update to the original. Pretty great stuff.
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Found by a fellow teacher on the copier at her school.
This is why I teach for America.
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Unlike other athletes, Frisbee people won’t let it go. My theory is that this is because there’s a huge overlap between people who are good at Frisbee and people who do Teach for America. The same instinct to make at-risk kids learn, which I admire so much, becomes deadly when turned on friends trying to relax on a Sunday afternoon in the park.
– Mindy Kaling in “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?”
