August 2011
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Reflections on BTC
Returning to college seems like an impossible task after the experiences of this summer. How can I wake up without the promise of Good Morning cheers? How can I begin my own learning from a professor who does not even use See, Say, Do cycles? But most of all, how can I pursue education for myself when there is so much more I want to do to help my students from this summer?
Although I...
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Orientation Post
Breakthrough Cambridge is still in the orientation process and we are preparing to introduce our students to a rigorous and exciting curriculum July 5th! When I first received the pilot Pre-Algebra for my 7th grade math class I was very shocked. I thought the skills we would be teaching would be skills like “find the value of the variable” and similar skills. Instead, we are teaching...
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Pre-Summer Blog Post
What brought me to Breakthrough was a variety of circumstances, every single one of them good! I have been interested in education and how the achievement gap can be bridged in the United States since I was a junior in high school. Through tutoring and volunteer programs, I developed this interest to the point at which I decided to use my passion for my senior undergraduate thesis. I plan on...
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It's been so long...
Since I posted on here! I have queued up a series of posts that chronicle the beginning and the end of my time at Breakthrough Cambridge, but not the middle. I hope you can forgive me for this omission, and I would love to sit down at coffee with whoever wants to hear about the middle. :) (or just write another blog post about the pressure and joy of being a full time teacher for admittedly small...
