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I’ve been really lucky this week to get the chance to teach and learn in a wide variety of settings — from a fourth grade class in Newark where we worked through math and creative thinking (and boy does the student teacher in that setting ROCK) to my freshmen and I talking about Kite Runner to now, sitting here with my literacy in the content area students, learning from their case presentations. All week, I haven’t left a class without so much to think about and on, things I want to learn more about and teach better. The students inspire me — whether they’re 9 or 60. They’re coming to class with so much else going on in their lives and they’re really working on this material, making sense of it and relating it to their lives. I listened to one fourth grader read her writing about the tricks she uses to understand multiplication tables (she taught me a thing or two) and to my seniors talking about literacy in the biology classroom. They’re really working hard to think these things too and I have to say, I’m impressed.

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