Started the day at 7:10am! Yes! Off to breakfast and our first training session of the day. This morning and afternoon we addressed everything from the mission of Teach for America: to close the achievement gap, to the details of the gap in Charlotte, to core values, to hammering away that each of us is a representative for TFA at all times...and specifically to be careful with what we write in online blogs...a good warning. Our director expressed her regret that we had started late. Expecting to find a reading of 8:15am at the earliest on my watch, I looked down to 8:03am. Goodness, I am going to be the most punctual, type A person ever after this experience.
This evening we enjoyed fine dining as we mingled with big donors to the Charlotte TFA organization. The high (slash low) point of the night was when the superintendent praised the work of our executive director and, to the surprise of 08 corps members, wished her the "best of luck this fall at Harvard University!" Appropriately, our executive director spoke next, explaining that this was indeed new information to us. The poor superintendent was heartily embarrassed and apologized profusely for revealing the confidential information. It is a true shame that we will not get to work with her in the fall as her sharpness, leadership, and professionalism are unparalleled.
No marsh mellows and toothpicks today, but we spent many an hour in an auditorium and broke out into smaller groups to compare high and low performing schools across categories such as achievement disparities relating to socioeconomic background.
Tomorrow we participate in district processing. This includes such fun activities as fingerprinting and drug testing. Super. SHOUT-OUT to my Mom for overnighting my driver's license! The closing remarks this afternoon went something like this, "Thank you for your active engagement today; and Katie Fisher, we have a package for you." This is clearly the least of all the amazing things you have done for me in my life, but still, this one is very helpful, thank you!
This evening we enjoyed fine dining as we mingled with big donors to the Charlotte TFA organization. The high (slash low) point of the night was when the superintendent praised the work of our executive director and, to the surprise of 08 corps members, wished her the "best of luck this fall at Harvard University!" Appropriately, our executive director spoke next, explaining that this was indeed new information to us. The poor superintendent was heartily embarrassed and apologized profusely for revealing the confidential information. It is a true shame that we will not get to work with her in the fall as her sharpness, leadership, and professionalism are unparalleled.
No marsh mellows and toothpicks today, but we spent many an hour in an auditorium and broke out into smaller groups to compare high and low performing schools across categories such as achievement disparities relating to socioeconomic background.
Tomorrow we participate in district processing. This includes such fun activities as fingerprinting and drug testing. Super. SHOUT-OUT to my Mom for overnighting my driver's license! The closing remarks this afternoon went something like this, "Thank you for your active engagement today; and Katie Fisher, we have a package for you." This is clearly the least of all the amazing things you have done for me in my life, but still, this one is very helpful, thank you!
4 comments:
Glad that Charlotte is going well, and that you got over there without being detained due to your suspicious lack of official identification.
Additionally, fairly awesome picture of you keenly reading all that important binder material that will gently guide you thorough shaping the hopes and minds of young beasts... children.
As for the 70:30 ratio, lemme give a shout out to the ladies of TFA! Whoot!
Can I borrow that binder when you're done? Looks like a good read.
I'm confused, your hair looks very similar to before. And by very similar I mean, hawt. as. eva.
Thanks for the anti-drama support. And glad things are going well. But I had no doubt they would for you. Still, I will continue sending tons of great energy your way!!!
Nice shorter approach to the hair Katie. Good luck with the heavy reading.
holy crap what a haircut!
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