Hello Beautiful People, And then there is that moment in your teaching career when you can’t find the tests that you gave your students. You can’t find the tests that you gave your students. You made your students take an exam. A fairer than fair exam. An easy exam. An exam that truly was crafted…
Hey Friends! As most of you may not know, I am student teaching at LaGuardia High School for my final semester at NYU in the Educational Theatre program. Last semester, in my elementary placement, I student taught in a science classroom at The Corlears School and had a beautiful time with my CT (Cooperating Teacher)…
Hello Beautiful People, I’ll keep this short. I’ll keep this brief. Cause, quite frankly, this post wasn’t supposed to get written. This wasn’t on the agenda. This wasn’t on the calendar. But this, well, these words, well, they are burning at my fingertips. Today, I didn’t have to teach. Today, we had off from school,…
Hello Beautiful People, Sometimes, when you’ve been teaching for a while, you start to wonder why the heck you’re in such a profession – especially lately, when teachers have become public enemy number one. You can’t help wonder, where’s the love? You can’t help wonder, were schools like this when I was young? You can’t help but…
Hi Friends, My solo show, How to Be a Successful Teacher, was accepted into the 4th annual United Solo Festival at Theatre Row Studios this year. My performance on October 29, 2013, left me with excitement, relief, and appreciation for an opportunity to perform in an Off-Broadway space among professional talented staff and festival participants. …
Hello Beautiful People, Today was a day that made me proud. Today was a day that gave me hope for the future. Today was a day that restored my faith…in people. Today I went to work, to teach my classes. My students had just dinished watching the film, School Ties, and they knew they had…
Hello Friends, Time is a funny thing. It’s one of the few aspects of our lives, outside of ourselves, that is truly relative. Sure, it’s constant, and flies, and is of the essence, and waits for no [wo]man, and is on my side (yes, it is), but it’s also deeply personal. It could feel like…
Hello Beautiful People, I was wearing khaki pants that were practically so faded they were white… …and a red tank top… …and a blue jean jacket… Red. White. Blue. Crazy how, twelve years later, that stuff still sticks with you, isn’t it? I was in my social studies class when all of a sudden my…
Hello Beautiful People, Around this time last year, the world was charged with political energy. A new election was around the corner, and it seemed like the whole country was at odds with another. You were Red. You were Blue. You were Black. You were White. We forgot about the shades of grey; we forgot…
Dear Friends, Every night I read my daughter the same two bedtime stories. She seems to love the routine and hopefully she enjoys the different readings I give each night.Sometimes I change my pace, character, accent, tone, or inflection, to make it a bit different, and to keep myself engaged in the process. It’s a…