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Karena Thomas (Baltimore '15) & Paul Larcom (Baltimore '11) share their experience/wisdom with incoming 2017 corps members Nadia Quiroga, Starling Temp, & Brandon Horning during the Open House Series visit to Lakeland Elementary/Middle School.

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As thousands of students graduate across the city and county from K-12, graduation season is upon us. Seniors at Forest Park HS overcame moving into a temporary space at Northwestern for their senior year while still shining throughout the year and this past Saturday! Senior class president Raymond Richardson celebrates his big day with TFA teachers present and past, Nakai Corral, Claire Cunliffe, and Hope Burke, as well as Site-Based Mentor Darrin Brozene. Raymond heads to Goucher July 31 to starts summer classes!

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Team Pipelines is SO EXCITED to announce that we will be partnering with The SEED School of Maryland this year as a school to place incoming corps members. We look forward to seeing corps members thrive at yet another school serving Baltimore City youth! #onecause #priorityone #prioritythree

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Here's to a year of learning, growing, and striving.

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The TFA Baltimore Leadership Team debating FY18 goals. We may not always agree, but we care about our students, staff, corps members, alumni and supporters.

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Excited to watch my mentee hold it down during his Presentation of Learning at The Crossroads School. Emily Pederson (Baltimore '14) served as the room time keeper (while also gauging Science acumen) as students demonstrated their mastery in Science, Humanities, Math & Yoga.

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Sharlimar, Dannie, Normandi, and Miles hanging out while promoting wellness. Grateful to Sharlimar and the team for organizing a day I didn't even realize I needed!

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My Padlet challenge...caption this picture, best caption wins a prize.

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On Monday night several of our staff got to go to the Heart of the School Awards at the Hippodrome. It was such an inspiring evening honoring some fantastic school leaders (and profiling their amazing schools). Maggie was featured in one of the videos highlighting one of the winners and our board chair Paul Wolman helped kick off the evening.

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S/O to Hailey for securing a awesome speaker (Gerri) for the April staff meeting.

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S/O to Hailey for securing a awesome speaker (Gerri) for the April staff meeting.

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Below you'll find the step team documentary Geri and her team our apart of!

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'Step' Official Trailer (2017) | Documentary

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Watch the official trailer for 2017 documentary "Step," directed by Amanda Lipitz. Release Date: August 4th, 2017 Plot Summary The senior year of a girls' high school step team in inner-city Baltimore is documented, as they try to become the first in their families to attend college.

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As our open house quickly adapted to the current climate of our region the Why Baltimore Can't Wait! Open House Series emerged! The biggest lift has been the overwhelming interest in school visits! A huge thank you to Josh, Chitamawe, and Dara for stepping up and helping take 2017 ICM on school visits!
Principal Najib Jammal has emerged as the real MVP during school visits! Each time he has greeted corps members, given them a tour of the entire school, and sat down for over an hour to chat and answer questions! Taking the time to do this (numerous times) while running a school is no small feat! #celebrate #onecause #onecorps #hardcore

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Shout out to Jessy for all of her work in measuring student outcomes, but also for leveraging her organizational skills to ensure that no one steals our essential kitchen tools.

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I just want to give a huge shout out to so many people who helped make Open House possible, despite the last minute adaptations!
*Thank you Taylor W. for sharing your wisdom on how to order food like a pro!
*Thank you Dara for ordering food, helping set up the ICM wall, and all the other million coordinating things you did!
*Thank you Josh for helping with the ICM wall and entertaining us all by quoting The Lion King for hours on end. :)
*Thank you Mica for helping me complete the ICM wall late on a Friday night!
*Thank you Kim, Riyaz, and Meri for helping coordinate current CM being a part of this event!
*Thank you Hailey for coming in on a Saturday and leading a small group!
*Thank you Chitamawe for your assistance setting up, running open house, completing the programming, and just sharing your wisdom as I learn!
**HUGE SHOUT OUT to whoever on LD wrote this note and left it for us! You are the best!
#CELEBRATE

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1. When I don't get a spot on my block, I almost always park on Fairmount Avenue right outside of Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School. This means I often get to see TFA alum & Principal Marc Martin greet his students every morning as they're coming into school. It's a great way to start the day.

2. This week Jessy, Taylor W., and Rachel sent me emails with AMEX receipts that made my week. Each were super clear about what the expense was, where it should come from in our budget, and included detailed participant lists where needed. Awesome job, ladies!

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Thanks to everyone pictured and not pictured for making the trip to Atlanta to discuss ways we can be a stronger TFA! #celebrate #hardcore

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Just hooked Mark up with double screens! Huge shout out to the TOPS team for guiding us in our clean up efforts! Just weeks ago Mark was sharing his space with boxes and old materials, and now he is increasing productivity!

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The power and love of a diverse collation of community members was inspiring last night at the monthly meeting of this incredible community association! Throughout Quarter 4 corps members pick a community learning opportunity to attend as they consider the history and perspectives of local communities and connect content to community.

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Check our Hailey being a strong organizational steward by taking a picture of her boarding pass for reimbursement purposes (whether AMEX or personal). Thank you Hailey for exhibiting #onecorps!

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Thanks to Jessy for making the letters for CMs to show some appreciation for their 1CM CSs.

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Dave Hopp's (2012) students allowed us to ask questions and offered great advice to 2017 CMs Alexis Tucker and Melanie Schieve--Including for teachers to find creative ways to incorporate technology in the classroom. Mr. Hopp for example uses Kahoot! as one of many ways to assess student learning.

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Memes make emails 100x better! Thanks Rachel!

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Memes make emails 100x better! Thanks Rachel!

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Cleaning our fridges and finding some GEMS in there. Remember that we'll now use the fridge near the window for our personal meals, and the fridge near the tech closet for food that is meant to be shared/eaten by anyone!

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Shyam and Riyaz created a wall of pictures, articles, information to share a bit of AAPI history and heritage with us. Thank you!! #OneCorps

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Some Baltimore team time enjoying our first taste of a Kansas City bbq speciality, burnt ends. A huge thanks to Hailey for making this development experience possible.

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Seniors in the Baking Goods trade at Mervo plan and run Noisy Burger at R House as part of their senior internship through next Tuesday, May 2nd! Not to be confused with Culinary Arts, Baking Goods students "make all the good stuff!" Be sure to stop by before Tuesday as well as check out more about the awesome things all Mervo students are doing!  Go Mustangs!

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Alumni Meeting: Great banner in the halls of the Digital Harbor Foundation where students reflect on how the learning/experience not only has impacted them, but could impact Baltimore as a City. Andrew Coy ('09) has built something special.

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Author Melody Hoffmann, Dr. Lawrence Brown, and the Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition discuss the roots and impact of transit inequities, particularly biking and bike lanes. Many of the comments touched on a cycle of urban planning and gentrification fueled by a desire to attract a "creative class" to Baltimore and other cities. Together they urged folks to attend local events like neighborhood and city council meetings to advocate for transit projects that decrease transit detention--"get involved beyond the critique."

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Finally able to organize thoughts! Looking forward to talking to our board about measuring our impact this week, and looking forward to chatting more with the team about this too.

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On Tuesday, I had the chance to go and see leading racial justice activist, Deepa Iyer, a leading South Asian activist who served for a decade as the executive director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), focusing on community building in post-9/11 America. She recently wrote a book called "We Too Sing America. South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future." It was a total inspiration to meet her in person and hear about the amazing work she has been doing. It definitely a moment of profound additional impact because I don't see many South Asian (and women) activists who talk so passionately about API discrimination and anti-blackness in our community.

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Dr. Andrew Brantlinger of UMD talks with JHU students and local teachers about three approaches to secondary math—traditional, reform, and critical. He discussed the critical approach in the context of a high school Geometry classroom with examples, research conclusions, and lessons learned. S/O to Kim for the heads up about this opportunity!

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My students and I are painted in a mural at KIPP Ways Primary (my school in Atlanta)! I was chosen to be painted because I was a founding teacher, and I'm excited to be physically part of the school for years to come! I still receive pictures of my students hugging the wall when they miss me :)

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LD team! Check out our Chart Paper Graveyard & collect anything you'd like to keep by April 21st! #gopadlet #firstpost!!!!

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Talking through how to take LEAP to the next level for our alumni, incoming & prospective corps members, and students in FY18! priorites 1&2

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Doing a brain dump to try to push work forward on how we can best measure our impact. Good thing I can use the awesome pager that Normandi compiled for partners as a guide to better organize my own chaotic thoughts! #onecorps

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The Light City Education Lab had great representation from TFA yesterday - including our very own, Joe Manko! This was one of the best panels of the day. #onecorps

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1CM coaches en route to learn from team D.C.

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When the TOPS team and Pipelines team helped us stuff nametags for THE EVENT! We literally couldn't have done it without you all! Seriously.

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So excited about the work that Justin Eames (2005) and his students are designing for our office! Seeing their creative leadership in action was AMAZING!!!

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Thank you so much to Chitamawe, Meri, and Taylor H. who helped in yet another successful and inspiring Welcome Call. Taylor did an amazing job painting a picture of the coach/corps member relationship for our 2017's. #onemorecallleft

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I got to attend Block 1 of Ateira Griffin's Root Cause Analysis session on Saturday and I loved every minute of it! The students were so engaged and I heard more than one corps member say that they wanted to do something similar with their students in their own classrooms. #priority2

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Regional Representative Council taking time to step back and reflect on our regional Padlet initiative!

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Classroom visits today and children enjoying learning!

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This wasn't even half of the backpack we stuffed Friday!

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Meri did this all herself (+ help from other staff members)
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Look at us go!
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Hosted by the Loyola GSE, the panel was the culminating event following the four-part series in the Sun and spotlighted in our very own Bmore Times (S/O to Lauren!). Two quotes, both from Professor Royal, stood out to me:
On school segregation and the effort to integrate schools: “Let’s be clear…this is a White people problem”

On the resistance of White parents to integrate neighborhoods and school: “You’re upset that the system that was designed for you is no longer working for you”
See more here from Twitter! #prioritytwo

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With a little dirt and a little sweat Mr. Hopp's 4th period Biology class, at Patterson HS, was able to finish the assembly of their hoop house on Monday!

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Congratulations to the entire ES team on a job well done with THE EVENT! It was an inspiring night. I know I can speak on behalf of many people who felt re-energized and loved reconnecting with so many friendly TFA faces. #tfabmoreat25

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And these are just for CMs and alums!

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Excited to start Schooltalk, the newest book from Mica Pollock, editor of Everyday Antiracism #learningorg #prioritytwo Check it out here!

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Us at the closing dinner!

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Thoughts from EVB at the TFA Network Summit

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Thoughts from EVB at the TFA Network Summit

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EVB was the keynote speaker last night at the Summit. She shared teh question that she has been thinking about lately "What is essential now?  She wants to continue to ask questions and it is important that we support each other. She insists that we can't continue to act/do business as usual.

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Look at that stage coming together!

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Fuel for the fun ahead! Enjoying some great food as we get ready for The Event!!!

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Thank you Hailey for leading a lunch and learn to generate ideas and themes for our first staff retreat of the FY17/18 year! One idea that everyone agreed on was incorporating being 'unplugged' for at least part of the retreat!

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In the airport headed back to the Balt & jotting down all of the reflections I had at the Summit about drafting a plan for measuring student outcomes. #onecause

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Sean Martin (Baltimore '05) and his students at City Neighbors High School will be hosting local authors during their letter to the author projects. Great visit to elementary/middle school today. 

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Sean Martin (Baltimore '05) and his students at City Neighbors High School will be hosting local authors during their letter to the author projects. Great visit to elementary/middle school today. 

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Great video from "The Happiness Project" session 

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Great video from "The Happiness Project" session 

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https://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work#t-72150

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We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? In this fast-moving and very funny talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that, actually, happiness inspires us to be more productive.

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Spotted at TFANS17 ... #hardcore badboyRiRi

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Spotted at TFANS17 ... #hardcore badboyRiRi

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Awesome conversation today with Joshua Crockett, Jeremy Freeman (2015) and Tarik Brown (2015) about recruiting more Black/African-American men to our movement--especially in Baltimore. Excited about the next steps and continuing the conversation! #Priority 1

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#Hong

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#Matschiner #Dong #DeLuna

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I'm not joking, my hotel room is in a TRAIN. One of the most interesting hotels I've stayed in by far!

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Open House Series - ICM School Observation

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Open House Series - ICM School Observation

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2017 ICM, Paige Nelson, had the chance to observe 2013 Baltimore alumna, Nicole Heney, teach her her 1st-5th grade SPED self-contained classroom. Today was "specials" day where many of the kids get pulled out for ESOL and speech support. We then went to Spoons in Federal Hill (where Paige wants to live) to debrief on the experience. She was surprised by how small the class was (Ms. Heney's full class is 8 kids), but realized that these students need such personalized attention that the small class size better supports them in reaching their IEP goals. #hardcore

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Last Wednesday I had the pleasure of attending Sharlimar's Trauma & Teaching LC that focused on Race-Based Trauma. I highly recommend this LC to everyone working with our city's youth. The next two sessions are April 19 & May 17! Below is one of the many articles we discussed; please take a couple minutes to read through it. #onecause

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Williams is in the process of opening a clinical program that will exclusively treat race-based stress and trauma, in a predominantly black neighborhood in Louisville. Shortly after the Charleston shooting, I called Williams to discuss her work; what follows is a lightly edited and condensed transcript of our conversation.
What is race-based stress and trauma?
It's a natural byproduct of the types of experiences that minorities have to deal with on a regular basis. I would argue that it is pathological, which means it is a disorder that we can assess and treat. To me, that means these are symptoms that are a diagnosable disorder that require a clinical intervention. It goes largely unrecognized in most people, and that's based on my experience as a clinician.
What are the symptoms?
Depression, intrusion (the inability to get the thoughts about what happened out of one's mind), vigilance (an inability to sleep, out of fear of danger), anger, loss of appetite, apathy and avoidance symptoms and emotional numbing. My training and study has been on post-traumatic stress disorder for a long time, and the two look very much alike.
Over the weekend, I received several distressing emails and texts from friends who were suffering from feelings of anxiety and depression. Do you think we should all be in treatment?
I think everyone could benefit from psychotherapy, but I think just talking to someone and processing the feelings can be very effective. It doesn't have to be with a therapist; it could be with a pastor, family, friends and people who understand it and aren't going to make it worse by telling you to stop complaining.
What do you think about the #selfcare hashtags on social media and the role of "Black Twitter" as resources for people who may not have the resources they need to help process this? Are online interactions like that more meaningful than they initially might seem?
Online communities can be a great source of support, of course - with the caveat that even just one hater can be stressful for everyone, and that's the danger of it. But if you don't have a friend or a family member, just find someone who is sensitive and understanding and can deal with racial issues.
In our initial email about the ripple effects of the murders in Charleston, you used the phrase "vicarious trauma." What does that mean?
Because the African-American community has such a long history of pervasive discrimination, something that impacts someone many miles away can sometimes impact all of us. That's what I mean by vicarious traumatization.
Is racial trauma widely recognized as a legitimate disorder?
The trauma of events like this is not formally recognized in the D.S.M. It talks about different types of trauma and stress-related ailments, but it doesn't say that race trauma can be a factor or a trigger for these problems. Psychiatrists, unless they've had some training or personal experience with this, are not going to know to look for it and aren't going to understand it when they see it. In order for it to be recognized, we have to get a good body of scientific research, a lot of publications in reputable peer-reviewed journals. Right now, there's only been a few. And we need to produce more.
On your blog, you chronicled the experience of a woman who encounters a therapist who dismisses her fears about racism. Is one barrier to treatment getting the medical community to acknowledge that racism exists?
Yes. A lot of people in the medical community live very privileged lives, so racism isn't a reality to them. When someone comes in and talks to them, it might sound like a fairy tale, rather than a real daily struggle that people are dealing with. Research shows that African-Americans, for example, are optimistic when they start therapy, but within a few sessions feel less optimistic and have high early dropout rates. It could be that clinicians don't know how to address their problems, or they may even be saying things that are subtly racist that may drive their clients away. If the patient feels misunderstood or even insulted by the therapist and they don't go back and get help, they end up suffering for years or even the rest of their lives for something that is very treatable.
Is there a recommended model for treatment?
We have great treatments that are empirically supported for trauma, but the racial piece hasn't really been studied very well. That's no easy task, because when we write these articles, they go to journals, where an editor looks at it and decides if it's worthy and applicable to go in the journal. And then it goes to reviewers who decide if it's a worthy and applicable topic.
Why has it taken so long to get momentum?
If you think about it, they weren't even letting black people get Ph.D.s 30 years ago in a lot of places. Ethnic minority researchers are the ones who are carrying the torch, by and large. We're only to the place now where we have enough researchers to do the work. And there's so much work that needs to be done.

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Williams is in the process of opening a clinical program that will exclusively treat race-based stress and trauma, in a predominantly black neighborhood in Louisville. Shortly after the Charleston shooting, I called Williams to discuss her work; what follows is a lightly edited and condensed transcript of our conversation.

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Look who I found at the Denver airport! On our way to Indy! Representing the '08 corps!

#onecorps

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LD has arrived in Indy! Headed to the conference site. #hardcore

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Having a conversation around her Kindergartners. Check out the pink sign to find out where? #prioritytwo

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Two of our MERIT scholars were accepted in Hopkins on Friday and the Baltimore Scholars program, which includes a full-ride (tuition, room and board, fees)! Julius on the left earned a full-ride to Brown as part ofthe Questbridge program.

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This is my Friday afternoon view. Budgeting means many things, but it boils down to spreadsheets. Many thanks to all staff that contributed to the budgeting process this year - we're in the home stretch!

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One Cause. One TFA. Hard Corps. Integration Design Sprint: 

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One Cause. One TFA. Hard Corps. Integration Design Sprint: 

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Integration Design Sprint team pitching ideas via Zoom to regional/national team members from across the nation. Our team was addressing Communication Vehicles for Sharing Information within/between regional and national teams. Great opportunity to learn alongside 13 amazing leaders from across the organization as we work to solve challenges to national/regional integration.

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Even on a snow day :)

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Just thought this was super cute!

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snow on the ground, snow in the sky, folks and dogs keep it moving
#hardcore
p.s. check out the shoes on the dog!

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Staying cozy at home today completing 7 ICM relational calls, updating Leslie on any Praxis/JHU questions, and updating TFACT. I love getting to know ICM passions, goals, and concerns as they begin TFA so we can ALL best support them in this work. #onecause

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Furthering my socio-political consciousness on a snow day :-) 

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Furthering my socio-political consciousness on a snow day :-) 

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Here's the link to a worthwhile read our own Revolutionary Riyaz sent a while back  that I'm finally getting around to reading....http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/four-asian-american-women-you-didn-t-learn-about-school-n727841

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TFA Board sub-committee meeting during snow day. Great conversation with our board members about telling the story of our alumni's impact on the region.

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TFA Board sub-committee meeting during snow day. Great conversation with our board members about telling the story of our alumni's impact on the region.

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At Highlandtown #237 today with ICM Liz Bonner to observe 5th year teacher Hannah Gorton. We were able to see Ms. Gorton and her 2nd/3rd grade class learn about community workers and practice the digraph sh. ICM Liz Bonner's short term goal is to be an elementary ESOL teacher and her long term goal is to become a specialist in the field so she can help other teachers.

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"there's a difference between knowing the path and walking it.  and we're walking it. Love, Peace Happiness"

thanks Courtney for allowing me to join you at KIPP! #prioritytwo #hardcore

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Riyaz, Melina and I had some yummy ramen while we planned our AAPI affinity group. I took a the picture of the receipt since I know Lauren would be thrilled to see it! #onecause

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Principal Search 2017! Great opportunity to recruit another alum to serve as a principal within the City Neighbors network! Working closely with Academic Director Mike Chalupa to identify strong fit alumni to apply to the position. Our first 2 matches were invited for initial interviews within 24 hours! #PriorityOne 

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Principal Search 2017! Great opportunity to recruit another alum to serve as a principal within the City Neighbors network! Working closely with Academic Director Mike Chalupa to identify strong fit alumni to apply to the position. Our first 2 matches were invited for initial interviews within 24 hours! #PriorityOne 

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Check Out 1 CM Haley Tilt's Student Blog Post

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Check Out 1 CM Haley Tilt's Student Blog Post

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https://independencehistory.wordpress.com/
Haley set up this blog for student assessments for her previous unit. "Blogging our way from past to present"  Amazing way to demonstrate the growth of her students (Grades 9, 10, and 12!! )

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Peter DeCandia ( TFA'13) just launched his website TeacherProps.org to help teachers find housing in Baltimore! Had a awesome convo with him this morning about sharing this info with incoming corps members!

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Kansas City - White Privilege Conference

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Kansas City - White Privilege Conference

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I am extremely excited to be going to the White Privilege Conference in April in Kansas City, Missouri with Andrew, Hailey, and Taylor W. Before I go I'm trying to not only reflect for the specific conference, but also learn as much as possible about the Kansas City region that TFA serves. #onecorps

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This morning I had the pleasure of hosting a group of eleven Penn State students. Since Sunday, these eleven students have been volunteering at a local high school and learning more about the overall experience of teaching here in Baltimore.

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Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to represent Teach For America Baltimore at the UMBC Spring Career Fair. Two days before the event, I helped freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors with their resumes at the annual Resume Rescue. TFA Baltimore was listed as a "Freshman Friendly" booth which is a distinction used by the Career Services Office to highlight employers that are willing to work with underclassmen. Three people who stopped by my table applied for 6DL.

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The end of February marks the end of quarter 3 for the fiscal year, which means regional dashboard building for me! So that I don't have to manually produce the same dashboard each time and so that I can avoid mistakes, I wrote a script (left) in a language called VB that grabs all of the  data points needed for the dashboard and processes them into a single report. The command line (top right) runs the script and pastes the final dashboard into a folder on my desktop (bottom right). After a few quick tests, I'm all set to post this to the Data Hub!

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Deyara Morris at City Neighbors has found herself as a teacher and taught a strong lesson on simplifying expressions containing radicals last week where she made purposeful mistakes to prompt student thinking and used a radial in the denominator of a question on the Do Now as a hook for her lesson #prioritytwo

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A purposeful cross-functional meeting trying to ignite our alumni community to get/stay engaged and use/know about all the resources our teams have to offer. #prioritythree #onecauseonecorpshardcore

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Recently I helped alum Elena Fedyszyn (Baltimore '09) submit her reimbursement for registering to take the Admin II test, which comes from a portion of our Kern funding. She said:

"I really appreciate your help and the help and support of TFA with all of this; it definitely helped pushed me to register to take the test."

That was my alumni joy for the day! It's great to see how we can use our fundraising power for the direct benefit of alumni still working in education.

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Raising Socially Responsible Children Learning Community Kick Off

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Raising Socially Responsible Children Learning Community Kick Off

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Kids making bracelets and parents - building community! #Onecorps

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Better late than never, showing my appreciation to you all for all you do 😊

#onecorps

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Scoping out some great spaces for our Spring Staff Retreat!!!

#onecause #onecorps #hardcore

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Experiencing history with Steve Bowley (Baltimore, 2017), who founded FLIGHT at Morrell Park Elementary/Middle, by serving as the keynote speaker for their inaugural meeting. Beyond being a rock for his students, it's clear that Steve plays a significant role in the day-to-day success of the school, surrounding community. Today's topic: Fearlessness (the "f" in FLIGHT). I focused the conversation on 3 components: Authenticity, Excellence, and Compassion. The young men walked away with key actions that they will display as the leaders of the school. Shout Out to principal Johnson! (Cohort 9!)

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Always great to reflect on classroom leadership days while attending meetings with City Schools officials at North Avenue. Mr. Mulwanda's AP English class hanging on the first floor.

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Excited to get some feedback that will push my work to the next level!!!! #Hardcore

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Checking in on our survey completion and doing some projections. Holy cow, we've gone up 5% in two days! #onecorps

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Panel in Action

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The Collective had a great panel with some great community organizers tonight!