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Diary of a pre-certified teacher: Vol. I – Metaphors of hope

I knew I was in trouble when I got the first homework assignment. It was a reading, “Metaphors of Hope,” from “Teachers, Schools, and Society,” our class textbook. “Metaphors of Hope” is an...

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher: Vol. II – No religion

On page 16 of the textbook “Exceptional Students: Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century,” there is a single-sentence reference to Christianity. “Exceptional Students” is a book about teaching...

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher, Vol. III: Sex-ed

I had been a substitute teacher for about two months in the fall of 2008 when I found out I had cancer. I had been feeling tired for months—if not a couple years—but all blood tests had proved negative...

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher, Vol. IV: Retarded jargon

I was three weeks into my first classes to become a certified teacher when I decided I had had enough. Not of my professors—both Karen, my Foundations of Education instructor, and Diane, who teaches...

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher, Vol. V: Cancer

On Dec. 7, 2008, I was in a hospital in Washington, D.C., wondering how long I had to live. The day before I had admitted myself to the emergency room with abdominal pain that I thought was a pulled...

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher, Vol. VI: This is SPARTA!

If you can’t master the kill-or-be-killed moment when you enter a classroom and the great vortex of childhood and/or adolescent Gotterdammerung grabs your ankles and starts to drag downward, you won’t...

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher, Vol. VII: National Geographic Explorer

Sometimes when you have prepared for death and it doesn’t come, you find yourself asking: why am I alive? You have a purpose-driven-life moment.

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher, Vol. VIII: The curious case

Sometimes everything sucks. Life doesn’t seem just hopeless, but malevolent. You can’t find a job. Your girlfriend is mad at you. You physically feel lousy

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher, Vol. IX: Camelot and punitive liberalism

I am taking a class to become certified as a teacher, and this week we are learning about the different school curriculums.

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher, Vol. X: The Morning Benders

In 2008, I wrote a book. It’s a conservative argument about sex, rock ‘n’ roll and God. All three things, I argue, can only be fully understood if interpreted through orthodox Catholicism

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher, Vol. XI: Five philosophies

Education in America today may be messed up due to the idea of segregating the schools of education into different genres

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher, Vol. XII: Stereotype threat

The scene: I was sitting in one of the most liberal counties in America, just outside D.C., in a class taught by someone with a master’s in education. And she was admitting that the system sucked

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher, Vol. XIII: Whatever it takes

Recently in the New York Times, Geoffrey Canada summed up his philosophy: 'For me, this is not an intellectual debate. This is quite literally about saving young lives. For parents in devastated...

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher, Vol. XIV: The true and only heaven

The next few weeks will decide my fate. I will get an offer in the next few weeks, or I will do something else for a living.

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher, Vol. XVI: The letter is as good as any

In this economy, you’re going to get a stack of resumes. A person needs to do something to stick out

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Diary of a pre-certified teacher, Vol. XVI: Final exam

After I took my final exams, I decided to go to the beach for a few days. I wanted to feel close to God, and since I was a kid the ocean has always connected me to the divine. The semester was over. It...

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An apology to Andrew Sullivan and the Journolisters

Last week, I wrote an article called “The Men of Journolist.” It was supposed to be a satirical piece about how liberals, especially liberal journalists, are physically unattractive people. In it, I...

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