The Best Mentor
I’m looking for photographs of my mentor to put on her memorial website. She was only 55 when she died. She died alone and in pain.
Read MoreI’m looking for photographs of my mentor to put on her memorial website. She was only 55 when she died. She died alone and in pain.
Read MoreI was an idealistic college grad in 2007, and I wanted to help people. I also wanted to be as bad ass as Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds. I decided that the best way to do so would be to teach at a high school in the South Bronx. I joined NYC Teaching Fellows, an accelerated teachers prep program that would allow me to move into my own classroom in September, only three months after leaving the womb of undergrad.
I wasn’t ready.
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