I left Baltimore at 8 am and arrived in Richmond around 10:15 or 10:30. My first stop was to find the historical marker for Gabriel Prosser. I had been told that it was “poorly marked,” and boy was it ever. I had to rely on a website for historical markers that gave GPS coordinates. I’d …
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A Journey of Discovery: Black Agency, Resistance, and Resilience
Day 1 of Southern Journey completed. For today only I was accompanied by my daughter Lily, who is going to be staying with my mother-in-law in Baltimore, where I’m sleeping tonight. Our first stop was the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National History Park in Church Creek on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I met with, …
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The American Exchange Project
Last August, my friend Aaron Hull sent a raft of his Facebook teacher contacts an invitation to participate in the American Exchange Project, which he described as a kick-ass opportunity for both our students and ourselves. I was a bit late in the recruitment process, but I moved quickly and they let me participate. I …
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I’m Back and Wetter Than Ever
Actually, our home in Somerville, New Jersey miraculously escape completely unscathed from the wrath of Hurricane Ida. So many of my neighbors were not nearly as lucky. And, of course, some folks in Somerville, Manville, Hillsborough and the surrounding areas had life-altering consequences. Knowing myself as I do, I knew that blogging every day for …
Tuesday Talk… with Michele Ventura, HHS 2004
I think I had Michele as a student for two straight years, but I already knew her from some appearances in HHS Debate and in her role as the school’s leading journalist. I remember Michele as an earnest, but not over-serious student whose leadership in Interact was something that I admired and sometimes glommed onto …
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Tuesday Talk… with Angela Clerico Knowles, HHS 1995
Angela was in the very first class I taught as a full-time teacher at Hillsborough High School. Through our interactions I learned a lot about how to connect with students on a personal level, as part of both being a good person and as a pedagogical strategy. We’ve kept in touch over the years and …
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Three Hundred Sixty Five Days of Blogging
Today marks the 365th straight day of blogging here. It’s been a long haul, particularly during the last couple of months of relative seclusion. Had I not come up with themes for each day I would never have come close to a full year, and although I could theoretically force myself to continue on this …
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Two years of my life on the desk…
Normally Thursday is my teaching nostalgia day and Sunday is the personal look back, but as I’m discontinuing both of those regular features starting next week, I moved a personal story to today because it’s one I’ve wanted to write about for awhile. I was a staff member of the Rutgers Review, the official newspaper …
Hillsborough Releases Its Plan… and Gov. Murphy Throws a Curveball
Last week Hillsborough finally released its fall education plan and unsurprisingly settled on a hybrid plan, which is what almost all of the districts in our area have done. I’m calling it an AACBB schedule: students in the “Red” group will go to school on Monday and Tuesday and students in the “Gold” group will …
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Fenster on Education 