A few weeks ago at our Teach for America Alumni Induction, my peers honored me with the award for Transformational Change. I have mentioned this phrase often in my writings as being a 'catchphrase' but very real and necessary at the same time. And while I know that I have so much growth left to… Continue reading Leavetakings Part One: When Two Years is Enough and Not Enough All At Once
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Saying Goodbye to Tulsa
“It is important to teach our children to read and write, but it is more important to teach them to be proud of themselves, and of us" (Other People's Children, Delpit, 1995, p. 89). My children have been my children and my students for the last four weeks. But in many ways they are also not… Continue reading Saying Goodbye to Tulsa
Odelia Younge 