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Category Archives: CIty Year
Service and Self-Efficacy
I recently had another post published on City Year’s internal IJ Blog! You need a City Year login to be able to view the original, so the full text is included below. Sorry that there is some City Year jargon … Continue reading
Posted in CIty Year, Leadership, Personal Experiences
Tagged City Year, cynacism, idealism, IJ, PITW, self-efficacy
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(Positive) Actions Have Consequences (Too!)
When working in a high-needs school (or, I’d guess, any school, for that matter), educators are trained to help students connect actions to consequences: “Well, you chose to make that rude comment in the middle of class to your classmate, … Continue reading
Posted in CIty Year, Leadership
Tagged City Year, education, empowerment, Leadership, middle school, school as prison
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ExploringTheMathTwitterBlogosphere
There is an online initiative for math educators to connect more closely online and share ideas and successes and failures: ExploringTheMathTwitterBlogosphere. I am no longer in the classroom as a math teacher, but I’ll participate anyway! I currently work for … Continue reading
A student solidifies her new “good student” self-image
As the school year nears its end, I have been thinking quite a bit about how to solidify the personal and academic gains my students have made this year. For students who are now understanding math better and/or have a … Continue reading
Posted in CIty Year, Education
Tagged City Year, gala, high school, self-image, speech, Student, Work ethic
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A cool idea for building a better relationship with a particular student
At a training yesterday, a colleague shared an excellent idea for strengthening a relationship with a student–possibly a student you have had trouble connecting with previously. Two copies of a book Have the student pick out a book. Then, you … Continue reading
Posted in CIty Year, Education, TFA
Tagged attendance, behavior, books, challenging student, education, library, literacy, Reading, Student, student relationships, Teacher
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Annual Report
Overall, 2012 was a pretty good year! Here are some of the noteworthy things to report… Professional: I got a new job! City Year! I’m getting paid substantially less, but I am WAY less stressed out and I am actually … Continue reading
What can we infer about City Year and TFA based on their different ad strategies?
During my recent journey home for winter break, I encountered advertisements for both City Year and Teach For America. I currently work with City Year and I had worked with TFA last year. On the public bus from my apartment … Continue reading
Posted in CIty Year, Personal Experiences, TFA
Tagged ad, airport security, City Year, marketing, PR, stress, Teach For America, TFA
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City Year (internally) published an essay of mine!
City Year’s national office has published an essay of mine! It is posted on CYconnect, City Year’s internal communication system. Unfortunately, it does not seem to be accessible by non-City Year people. If you do have a CYconnect login, the … Continue reading
False proxies are annoying
sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/11/avoiding-the-false-proxy-trap.html False proxies are results that are easy to measure and appear on the surface to be related to actual success of a person, program, or organization. The idea is that the higher these measurements seem, the greater the success … Continue reading
Posted in CIty Year, Personal Experiences
Tagged assessment, data-driven, false proxies, false proxy, mission, organization
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Having New Eyes 