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grad school: visas and loans edition.

So, grad school got a little more real after I got an email from them a few weeks ago saying I needed to pay...

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When you find out a family friend/student wrote about you as his favorite teacher in an essay assignment because you’ve been helping him cope with...

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Literary Specialist

Just had an exhausting (2 hour) interview for a literary specialist position and I think it really, really well.

I want this.

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This is my, “Did you seriously just scream ‘FARTS!’ flop on the floor and then smear ink from your busted pen all over your face?” face.

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"Secret Source"

I’d say about once a week, I have a seventh grader visit my room at school. I don’t teach that grade, but I knew this student last...

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Who I Follow

BS with majors in biological science and English literature and a minor in chemistry
MAT in science education
Teaching certifications for high school biology, English, and chemistry
Knowles Science Teaching Fellow
Currently teaching 9th and 10th grade biology in Maryland
I teach everything from inclusion to gifted
Strong interest in inter-disciplinary work, particularly STEM education and literacy in science (both “reading and writing” in science and the broad concept of scientific literacy)
Proud alumnus of the University of Pittsburgh with deep family roots in Michigan
Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Steelers. Deal with it.
I’m the liberal feminist atheist your parents warned you about.
I like to run (slowly), cook, and travel.
I’m an academic at heart with particular soft spots for molecular genetics, evolutionary biology, natural history (it’s a recent interest), poetry, critical theory, and sociology.
Representing science on the #Education editor team
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