(Adapted from speech) I chose this class [Exploring the Teaching Profession] for two reasons. Reason number one was it was an opportunity for me to earn free college credits and reason number two was that I would be getting community service hours. That was it. I didn’t expect much out of the class and wasn’t
Every day I am so inspired by Ismael. He is an extremely charismatic, kind, and well-spoken individual. He is intellectually curious and often surprises me with a range of conversation topics. Ismael was one of my last students to apply to college. He was curious about what college would offer him and shared all of
I attended a parochial school in all-black Harlem in the 1960s where all my teachers were Irish Catholic nuns. These women were phenomenal educators who knew how to build relationships and give structure and purpose to our lives when, at this time in history, minorities were not treated equally. Recently we had a high school
