Tumbleweed
Me, blowing & tumbling along, occasionally caught on fences.
I love Crystal Renn
and more difficult to learn than I have said.
You are right to smudge it that way
with the red and then
the orange: the world burns… ” - Poems about Teaching - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
Archive | This American Life
If you have any opinions about inner city public schools, listen to the 4-25-10 episode about Mount Pleasant High School.
Everything is blooming most recklessly
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
- Rilke
Tough
One of my students today told me she thinks she might be pregnant. And that her ex-boyfriend beat her and still hangs around her house. And that her mom’s boyfriend sometimes hits her siblings. I asked why she thinks so many girls here get pregnant- “The boys make them, don’t you know the boys here?”.
Yeah, I do know boys here. ”Tough” boys. I also know a lot of girls who have that other kind of toughness, the same student went on ahead and finished her test in class after talking to me, getting every question right.
Mind the Gap: Different Kinds of Toughness - Notes from the Classroom - GOOD
Poem Flow: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
I wish I had an iphone so I could use nerdy literary apps like this one!
Looking Past the Spin: Teach for America - Volume 24, No. 3 - Spring 2010 - Rethinking Schools Online
a 2nd year had this article in her gchat status as “worthy of reading if only to disagree with everything in it”, but I tend to agree with a lot of it. What does apolitical mean anyway? am I a terrible corps member or just a critic?
