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5 Lessons I Learned from Networking with 8th Graders
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Guest Post from Rob at ONGIG.com who attended our Citizen Schools California 6 Degrees Bay Area event in January.
I was privileged to participate in a Citizen Schools event in which 8th graders from Oakland, California got to practice their networking skills with a handful of “adults” with jobs, like me.
The whole idea was to get these kids to practice networking skills: handing out their resumes, talking about their career aspirations. Awesome!
1) Kids Like To Smile More Than Adults
How An Accident Brought Out the Best in Students
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Tom Anderson is a First Year Teaching Fellow and Former Teaching Associate at United for Success Academy in Oakland, CA. He has AB Negative Blood.
The caring students in Mr. Anderson's class.
While helping out in a reading intervention classroom, I bumped my head rather severely on a television set twice in a span of forty minutes. I wasn’t rushed off to the hospital mainly because I had thirty-two nurses in training who assisted me. It wasn’t just the caring nature of the dedicated and passionate 6th grade students, but two of my coworkers, Darielle Davis and Mica Warton who remained cool, calm and collected during this outrageous accident. Read more…
Lia Shepherd, Teaching Fellow, Citizen Schools
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Lia Shepherd explains why she became a Teaching Fellow, what our students need to succeed and why she is passionate about the Citizen Schools mission.
