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Comment on Where Will the Teaching Fellowship Lead You? by BenDuda

BenDuda — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:35:13 +0000

Great blog post featuring the pathways that you can take after your AmeriCorps service year(s)

I’m now the ED of AmeriCorps Alums – and among other things, we’re doing a lot of work to promote and highlight pathways that Alums take post-service.

Would love to invite the CS community to our National AmeriCorps Week webinar next month:
• AmeriCorps Online Townhall: Inspirational Pathways of Service and Leadership – on Tuesday March 13th at 3PM to 430PM ET, AmeriCorps Alums will host a webinar featuring a townhall-style conversation with 5 (five) AmeriCorps alumni following five different career paths from their service year. We’ll explore where they served, what they’re doing now, and key steps they took along the way. The webinar is free and open to Alums, current members, and friends of AmeriCorps Alums

Comment on CEO: Why YOU Should become a Teaching Fellow by Eric Schwarz

Eric Schwarz — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:19:52 +0000

Great post, Lynn…I hope you have applied for the fellowship and will spread the word.
Very best,
Eric

Comment on Teaching SOPA in School by Eric Schwarz

Eric Schwarz — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:16:25 +0000

This is an awesome post…I was at the White House yesterday and Jon Carson, the head of the office of public liaison, said that reaction to SOPA was intense across the country and activated younger voters more than anything in several years…glad to see you and CS were able to find the teachable moment

Comment on CEO: Why YOU Should become a Teaching Fellow by Lynn Carpenter Keeter

Lynn Carpenter Keeter — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:48:24 +0000

Learning is a gift and talent, thus teacing is a gift and talent. It is my recognition of both that has led me to embrace my passion for both learning and teaching. Working with students and leading them to develop a passion for these gifts is my reward. What more could one ask
than to have the opportunity to help open doors of learning and to challenge the student
to reach out as far as possible and to learn more than they ever dreamed of.

I want this opportunity! If you open a door for me, I can open many doors for my students.

Lynn Carpenter Keeter

Comment on Making the Video: How Students Grew While Making a Documentary by Anthony Mournian

Anthony Mournian — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:23:24 +0000

I’m a professional videographer/photographer in California.

Your class did a bang up job on this documentary and should be congratulated. II also work with students in elementary grades, from the 2nd grade to the 6th grade.

It is challenging for the students to make a movie. Many skills must be learned, and the students will always be students. Watching them grow, watching hidden talents emerge, and sharing their pride in what they accomplish is the pay off for the teacher.

The students find it hard to believe themselves when they see the final product up on the screen for their premiere.

Keep it up. There’s a movie maker, a director, a producer and a star among you!

Comment on Making the Video: How Students Grew While Making a Documentary by marjorie Nichols

marjorie Nichols — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:45:46 +0000

Hi,

So glad your mom shared this on fb, Jess. I’m going to forward it to colleagues. The kids
are great.

I photographed you and your brothers and was later invited to the exhibit you had in Cambridge.
It’s so great to see your creativity continues in your teaching!

Looking forward to the next documentary, Marjorie Nichols

Comment on Mean Girls: Bullying Then and Now by mother of a middle schooler

mother of a middle schooler — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:49:34 +0000

If you can believe it my middle schooler gets picked on for a big forehead (which she doesn’t even have) her voice. Its really ironic that they will find just about anything to pick on you for. Her voice is just fine its just girls being M-E-A-N. Keep trying!!

Comment on Making the Video: How Students Grew While Making a Documentary by Kathryn Silver

Kathryn Silver — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:10:19 +0000

This is great, Jess! Man, those sixth graders look so young. How time does keep flying along. I love how enthusiastic and engaged all the kids seem to be

Comment on Mean Girls: Bullying Then and Now by Julie

Julie — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:23:03 +0000

Ann, as a teacher I can truly understand your desire to make difference. Having been a teacher for almost thirty years, I, too, have fought, and continue to fight, bullying. We all wonder, all the time, if we are making even a little difference to any of our students. I was recently contacted by some of my first students. They attended an inner city school in a tough neighborhood and are all now adults with families of their own. The messages I’ve received from them have have affirmed that , at least with that group of kids, I did indeed make a difference and in ways that never even occurred to me. It may not seem like it now, but the simple fact that you are there makes a huge difference to those kids and while you and they may not see it now, some day they will. That will change if not the whole world, their worlds and that is all that counts.

Comment on How An Accident Brought Out the Best in Students by Lindsay

Lindsay — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:17:15 +0000

Tom, the relationships that you have built with your students is what enables them to put their best foot forward each and every day. You should be so proud!

(Also, great job Mica and Darielle for your teamwork and support!)