my first conference

I am in New Haven, Connecticut this week learning how to (hopefully) be an amazing teacher from amazing teachers. The charter school that was the inspiration for the school where I will be teaching was born here, so here we have come to study its roots and see how the tree grew forth. Here is one thing I have taken away so far:

sing it

"And baby there ain't no classroom bad enough,

Ain't no students tough enough,

Ain't no levels low enough,

To keep us from teaching our kids, baby..."