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Erin Greenwell: Your New Favorite Filmmaker
COVID-19 may have put a dent in the Marymount Manhattan College spring semester, but that isn't stopping Erin Greenwell from encouraging students to showcase their artwork and make social change. As soon as it was announced my NYC college would switch to online learning, Erin emailed a message to the entire community asking for drawings to be sent to the women of the Bedford Hills College Program: an organization that allows incarcerated women to receive an accessible college education while still carrying out their sentences at Bedford Hills. Below is a video Erin made about the program...
By Kathryn Milewski4 years ago in Education
Dr. Teter Had the Invaluable Quality of Making it Easy to Ask Questions
38 years ago I showed up at Plattsburgh State to major in Computer Science. I did well in a high school programming course but had no idea if I had the intellectual capacity to write code in college. Short of that, I had no backup plan, and the future seemed insecure.
By Rich Monetti4 years ago in Education
A Hero Who Speaks The Language of Compassion
The Statue of Liberty stands tall in the New York Harbor, still broadcasting a simple but important message. “Welcome.” But in the last few years, that nation-defining message has been obscured by those who would ignite the embers of fear and hatred. Too often, even those who enter this country legally to pursue their individual dream and then be a collective part of the American Dream are met with suspicion, enmity and sometimes even violence.
By Frank Racioppi4 years ago in Education
The Picky Nursing Instructor
She said “I’m going to weed you out” and my breath stopped in my throat. It was the second semester of Nursing school and the first semester I would be going to our local hospital for clinical experience, not sitting in an auditorium taking notes. This can’t be right, I thought. She must be joking. However, the tall mahogany-skinned instructor set her mouth in a straight line and didn’t break into a smile.
By Susan Elizabeth Bartlett4 years ago in Education
What Teachers Really Say to Students About the Coronavirus
Today, with the world fearing the new deadly disease, Coronavirus is spreading like wildfire. Majority of the people are taking it on a lighter note because they aren't aware of its effects. Yet, several institutes have initiated the act of spreading awareness in the form of basic facts and history about the virus. If we look at it closely, youngsters mostly school going students are prone to getting infected, including older aged people. Both of them tend to be less careful and are more exposed to germs. For students, teachers around the UK are trying to educate them and teach them about basic preventive measures.
By Ashleejean4 years ago in Education
Foreign Language Acquisition
Before the dominance of English, Arabic, Mandarin and most other dominant lingua francas present in the world today, there existed the lesser developed but ever flourishing Indo European language of the ancient Greeks. This archaic society had a knack and for mathematics, architecture, and especially philosophy. The latter being the most surprising, as well as impressive, considering how intricate, evolved, and precise their ideas were made out to be with such a limited vocabulary. Those who lived in Ancient Greece learned to communicate to each other effortlessly, as one would normally do when acquiring their native tongue, with words that contained thoughts that were rather vague. In terms of learning a language, stressing the importance of establishing a level of communication (i.e. being able to carry along any sort of conversation and having a good understanding of how the language works), the next step of proficiency becomes quite easy to achieve. A child doesn’t learn the basic foundations of grammar of his native language before learning to say his first few words. Acquiring a foreign language is a process which is made out to be a task which is difficult, if not inefficient in an exclusively monolingual society such as ours, though it is one that can be made simple and effective when the right principles and study habits are developed and employed.
By J Mitchell Lagaras4 years ago in Education
How Coronavirus Affects Educators
Hello my lovelies. So I want to make this post because this is something that affects everyone. As you all know I am an educator and in Virginia school has been closed for the last week and a half due to the coronavirus or its as it is better known as COVID-19. This school closure not only affects me as an educator, this affects my students in terms of their learning.
By Alix Nicole4 years ago in Education
She is Brown Brilliance
While teaching at Public School 24, I have witnessed JANINE Ernestine Brown as an amazing teacher and leader through her commitment to the effort for educational equity. She instructs in a fashion that enables her students to close the achievement gap. She used data to drive instruction while also setting ambitious goals for student achievement aligned to her high expectations. Ms. Brown used culturally relevant instruction to address the diverse learners in her classroom. What I enjoyed the most about working alongside her is Janine’s ability to engage all students through building healthy relationships and effective teaching practices.
By Lewis Spears4 years ago in Education
6 Truths About Working In Education
Working in education has been a huge rollercoaster for me. There have been so many emotions over the years between so many situations but one thing is always for certain. I wouldn’t give up education for anything. Being that the job I currently have was my first time working in education every year after that was filled with meaningful lessons in addition to a lot of clarity.
By The Darkest Sunrise4 years ago in Education