Today I signed a lease on a home in Jackson! I’m so excited – it’s a duplex in the neighborhood where my school is located. It’s cute on the outside and needs some work on the inside, but my landlords are fixing it up before we move in on Monday. Today was an adventure of …
Month: July 2016
On Thursday, I moved out of Delta State University and to Jackson, where I’ll be teaching for the next two years. I’m looking for housing right now, and I’ve gotten connected to a place that will hopefully work out – a house near my school that I’ll rent with a roommate. I’m going to see …
I’m really proud of this student’s exit ticket – we’ve been working a lot on comprehension with word problems and learning how to describe what we did to solve the problem. Also, I think it’s flat out adorable that they wrote “but wait, how can I do the next one.” School went a bit better today. …
“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” -Fannie Lou Hamer In the wake of the killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, I’m feeling pain and the fear that it will happen again. I also understand that, because I’m white, my pain is so small in comparison to the pain that the Black community feels in response to …
Last night there was a pretty big thunderstorm in Cleveland. Not alarmingly big – we didn’t lose power, I was never concerned for my safety, and for me, it was more of a nuisance than anything else. After all, I wanted to go over to the student union to print a few things and make …
In TFA, there’s a lot of talk of transformational change. It’s an organizational core value, and it’s emphasized pretty regularly. It’s hard to understand, though, what it means for me personally. Changes in my life tend to manifest in big, dramatic ways rather than small ones. I feel like, in some way, TFA is transforming …