Today was the first day of summer school, and I think it went really well! I wasn’t responsible for too much in terms of instruction, but I led a part of our procedure practice and I administered our math pre-test. Going into today, I was worried that the kids wouldn’t take the math pre-test seriously, …

My PledgeCents campaign is fully funded! I’m so surprised that it was funded this quickly, and I’m so grateful to everyone who donated. I’m so glad that I’ll be able to get pencils and crayons and paper and other school supplies for my students this fall. Yesterday, we set up our classrooms for summer school. …

Today was the start of Institute, TFA’s five week long training program. There’s all sorts of Institute lore that I’ve heard – that it’s a bootcamp for teachers, that it’s intended to break you, that no one gets any sleep. There was some effort to prove those ideas false, a lot of talk of managing …

One of the staff said that everyone who comes to Mississippi for Teach for America does one of the three M’s – they get married, they get a mutt, or they run a marathon. Dating someone you meet in Teach for America is common enough that Teach for America made a dating app joke for April …

I arrived in Mississippi on Friday, driving two hours south of Memphis to Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. I came to TFA’s Institute early, for Justice Journey. I had no idea what Justice Journey was, but I felt like I knew nothing about Mississippi, and I was eager for the chance to learn more. …