2022 HGSE Teaching Fellow Appreciation Padlet by

Thank you!

msladek13 — 2022-04-21 17:45:13 UTC

Dear TFs - Megan and Ashley, Thank you for your amazing work this year during a challenging semester. Your commitment and support got us through. Appreciate all you do! ~Mike

2022-04-21 17:47:25 UTC

Dear Alysha,
Thank you again for being such a fabulous teacher and partner for Ed Justice. I so greatly appreciated your insights and contributions to the weekly seminars, the spot-on feedback on student assessments, and the dynamism you brought to class every day. I will miss working with you--and I hope you learned as much from working with me as I learned from working with you.
Jake

Teamwork makes the dream work!

2022-04-21 17:51:29 UTC

Many thanks to Allison for being a wonderful thought partner and collaborator on Slow Looking. Your contributions have made the semester and course both easier and more enjoyable - for me and the students. I'm so glad you were part of the teaching team again this semester, and I hope to work with you in the future!
- Christina

Thank you, Daniel and Alaa!

2022-04-21 18:56:45 UTC

Dear Daniel Noh and Alaa Amid, you have been amazing and wonderful TFs. I feel so grateful that I was able to work with you throughout the Spring semester! Students only had positive things to say about their TFs, and they really appreciated your commitment to the class. Thank you for your hard work!! 🙏

H210V Empowering Human Relationships Teaching Team

2022-04-21 20:32:34 UTC

Dear Emily, Eily, Hisa, Annie, and Kelly, thank you for all your care and support for our students. If there's any way a teaching team can exemplify the very thing they are teaching - empowering human relationships - you found it and you did it! In the best sense of the story - and you know the story - you all are the "crossing guards" of our class! You created community in the brief 7 weeks we had with the students and helped the course live up to its own name. Thank you so much, Junlei

Thank you James!

2022-04-21 20:47:45 UTC

You have been an amazing teaching partner and planner all semester. Our students are so lucky to have you and so am I. Let's do it again!
-Linda

Thank you, Alia, J.J., and Emma!!

2022-04-21 21:35:24 UTC

Dear Alia, J.J., and Emma,
OH MY GOODNESS!!! You all were the pillars of A608... and you know what bridge I am talking about! You made A608Great, and I am so fortunate to have had the chance to team with you! You helped me through many challenges during the fall of 2021 - masks, recovery, family illness - and you did so with tremendous care! Plus, you made learning fun - for everyone - both in class and beyond! Thank you, thank you!! Warmest wishes, Monica

Thank you, Adriana, Hassaan, Lexi, and Nick!!!

2022-04-22 02:36:19 UTC

You are a rock star Teaching Team! This was such a weird year--so many ups, downs, and all arounds--but you did everything you could to make REAL TALK a real success. In a semester with a lot of demands, where we were all carrying a lot on the personal and professional front, you stepped up and crushed it. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate each (and all) of you. Whatever you need, I'm here for you forever. Congratulations! Much love and solidarity, Tim

H340 Preventative and Developmental Group Counseling

HGSE — 2022-04-22 03:24:37 UTC

Dear Kayla, Esther, Lisa, and Sal,

They formed, they stormed (some really stormed!), they normed and performed (some more than others), and they terminated (transitional objects in tow), and you led them beautifully throughout the journey in meta-cognitive-verse. Your generosity of time, expertise in cohesion-building, and strong command of group facilitation skills raised the caliber of the course, and it was an honor to share space with you each week. THANK YOU. I am in your corner for life.

With much gratitude,
Jo

So grateful for you, Edom & Hania!

gretchen_brionmeisels — 2022-04-22 03:33:18 UTC

Dear Edom & Hania,
I am so, so grateful for all of your support, wisdom, humor, energy and love this year. You have been instrumental in shaping our classroom community, and so many of our joyful moments have been the result of your work. Thank you for helping me thinking carefully about the readings/syllabus, for supporting the planning each week, for fielding my anxious texts, and for inspiring me with artwork, readings, and insights to share. I feel so lucky to have the chance to work with you. Sending you both tremendous love,
Gretchen

THANK YOU!

gretchen_brionmeisels — 2022-04-22 03:36:39 UTC

Dear Michael, Shafia, Zennon & Kimm,
Thank you so much for your amazing support and inspiration during Queering Ed this Fall. It is always a pleasure and honor to teach with you, and this year was no exception. I am grateful for all of the things that you have taught me, and for the love and energy that you pour into our classroom communities. Looking forward to more partnerships in the years to come.
With GRATITUDE and love,
Gretchen

H503M Race, Ethnicity, and Culture: Contemporary Issues in Asian America

HGSE — 2022-04-22 04:00:16 UTC

Dear Shubh, Cho, TVo, and Tonito,

You are trailblazers, history-makers, and the firsts. Because of you, 2021 will go down in history as the year HGSE met Asian American Studies. "Asian American history IS American history," and each of your lived experiences puts on full display the strength, resilience, power, and no-need-for-words-kind-of-sticky-love that makes Asian America great. You know I have to leave you with some AMAZING facts:

(Tonito, this is for you)
1781 - Antonio Miranda Rodriguez and his daughter of Filipino ancestry is chosen to be one of the 46 founding and first settlers of the city of Los Angeles

(Shubh, this is for you)
1928 - Indian American author Dhan Gopal Mukerji became the first Asian American to win a Newbery Medal for Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon

(Cho, this is for you)
1971 - Federal appeals Judge Herbert Y.C. Choy, the first Asian American and Native Hawaiian of Korean descent was nominated by President Nixon to serve on the federal bench on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

(Tvo, this is for you)
2016 - Child of Vietnamese refugees and Harvard University graduate Amanda Nguyen wrote the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act of 2016 when she found no such protections existed for victims of sexual assault

With that, THANK YOU. I am in your corner for life.

With much gratitude,
Jo

Thank you, Kay!

2022-04-22 11:24:11 UTC

Dear Kay,
Thank you for all that you do for T-002! From preparing lectures to meeting with and supporting students to grading. You are an integral part of the teaching team and I am so appreciative for your partnership!
Best,
Kim

Where would we be without you? (HDE101/102 Program Core: Developmental Insights)

2022-04-22 13:07:38 UTC

Dear Sophie, Nneka, Jamaica, Emily M., Emily W., Annie, Megan, Lily, Maddie, & Sarah, Where would we be without you as our teaching team? We can't even imagine. Thank you for your steadiness and perseverance through this massive course. This is not an easy course to teach - the size of it, the requirements, and the very very diverse range of students (167) who come from every corner of the human development/education world, whose needs are not easily met in any one single course. You managed to offer support and connection for so many of them. You created a welcoming space for all of our students, no matter where they came from, where they are headed, and how closely or distantly their interests matched with yours. You did what we couldn't go - and your work inspires us to keep working on designing a better course! With much gratitude, Junlei & Stephanie

Thank you, Jenna!!!

2022-04-22 14:23:42 UTC

Dear Jenna -
I am so grateful for your thoughtful leadership in H210N this spring! You brought such kindness and care to your work with our students. I am so grateful to you and am so excited to see you continue to push for early childhood equity in the future! I am so lucky to know and work with you!! - Emily

H810H Literacy Coaching

2022-04-22 14:32:53 UTC

Dear Brandon,
We got to know each other's strengths and weaknesses as we launched H810H, bringing together our cohort and practitioners. You brought humility and humor to the activities you designed and the prompts which extended student thinking and deepened their discussions. Who will ever forget "game show" Brandon!
All the very best,
Pamela

H811G

2022-04-22 14:38:30 UTC

Dear Kaitlin and Briana,
Here's to Team H811G! You brought the practitioner perspective to addressing theoretical concepts and research results and designed activities and discussion prompts which consolidated our students' learning. You helped me to visualize connections, designing presentations with more graphics and fewer words! Your contributions to H811G were invaluable, and I learned so much from you both.
Many, many thanks,
Pamela

Literacy Assessment and Intervention

2022-04-22 14:43:19 UTC

Dear Emma,
Your school leadership experience was an asset in preparing our students to administer, interpret, and implement literacy assessments to their learners. You helped them address management concerns and relationship building with their learners. Our collaborations scaffolded the students' growth as interventionists, and for that I am truly thankful.
All the very best,
Pamela

H702 Focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa

2022-04-22 14:46:46 UTC

Dear Fei,
Your experiences and expertise in working on issues of educational improvement and equity in Sub-Saharan Africa added so much value to our students' perspectives and learning. Critically examining policy implications and their unintended consequences was a strength you brought to the teaching team.
Many thanks,
Pamela

EDU827 Global ECD

2022-04-22 15:13:42 UTC

Dear Jonathan & Elizabeth,
Thank you both so much for all of your hard work and dedication this year in EDU A827. Your knowledge, energy, humor, patience, and practical insights have been such tremendous assets for our students. (Not to mention, the two of us would be totally lost without you!) Thanks for all that you do every day! You are ECD rockstars!
--Dana & Aisha

Thank you, Team S057! Alexis, Catherine, Chris, Kate, Nick, Maggie, Mark, Mary, Shirin, Thomas

carrie_conaway — 2022-04-22 16:52:48 UTC

Your small-group discussions and high quality feedback are at the heart of the student experience in this course, and each of you did a fantastic job of building relationships with your students and personalizing their learning.

Thank you for keeping S057 humming, our students learning, and me sane. But most importantly, thank you for saving the pie for dessert.
--Carrie

A130 Building Nimble and Democratic Minds

dan901 — 2022-04-22 16:59:52 UTC

Kailah,
What can i say that could capture how much you brought to the class? What could do justice to how you jumped in as a partner with Luz and me as if you've been on the entire journey with us for years? What would the students say about your strong, supportive presence in and outside of the class? There are answers to these questions, so are there answers in these questions! Thank you so much! You made such a difference. Best,
Dan

T250: Children with Learning and Developmental Differences

2022-04-22 18:15:23 UTC

Dear Amanda, thank you very much for all your support and hard work. I don't know what I would do without you. You are an amazing educator and thoughtful, detail-oriented, innovative, and hard working. Our collaborations enhanced this course so much and I learned a lot from you! THANK YOU! Nadine

T022

2022-04-23 06:12:23 UTC

Dear Salman, Arkadijs and Anne, thank younfor your partnership in outting on this class. You brought a high leve of enthusiam, excellent techicsl skills and loads of EQ to make the class and the teaching experience superb! I am deeply grateful for you! Best, Peter.

2022-04-24 14:47:38 UTC

Dear Zac and Lucian,

Thanks for all your work. It’s been a challenging few months for me for various reasons, and I could not have made it through without each of you.

With much gratitude,

Brian

Thank you, beloved Michael!

2022-04-24 23:31:46 UTC

Thank you for shining like you do! Thank you for your overflowing generosity, kindness, deep listening, and gentle leadership. From cactus candles and soft blankets for our circle, to the most thoughtful and organized multi-colored emails, your quiet power has helped to guide us all in our collective work for transformative justice. You are wise and giving, a treasure to us all. With gratitude from our T416 family... in solidarity and love, Kaia

T011 - Thank you, Max

2022-04-25 14:20:30 UTC

Max, I so appreciate your willingness to model your own learning and growth for the students, sharing your own Immunity to Change work and therefore supporting theirs. You've been incredibly flexible as the course has grown and shifted, and I love how you are always ready to be a thought partner to reflect on and plan for the students' experiences. Best, Deb

Thank you, Joe, Jenny and Cheryl!

2022-04-25 14:43:19 UTC

Thank you for bringing Equity in Action to life this semester! You brought such warmth, wisdom, and experience to the classroom, but most important, you brought hope for what is possible. And you made our ongoing planning and reflection not only more thoughtful, but more enjoyable. I couldn't have dreamed up a better team! With much love and gratitude-- Jen

H811J

2022-04-25 19:47:05 UTC

Doug and Rosalie, you have made teaching H811J an unalloyed pleasure for me, with your wise counsel about topics and activities, your efficient processing of student questions and postings, and your great teamwork to plan the section activities. Rosalie, you brought a refreshing new set of eyes to the content of the course. Doug, you were unfailingly reliable in finding precisely the resources we needed in the depths of Googledocs. I add my gratitude to the students' appreciation for all your efforts.
Catherine

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

2022-04-25 22:00:41 UTC

Dear Shenette, J.J., Nick, Brandon, Kori, Billy and Christine,
Thank you for being with us on this incredible ride-- the launch of the ELOE core experience! You brought what began as a kernel of an idea to life. We are so thankful for your guidance, wisdom, and hard work. We couldn't have done it without you. With much love and gratitude- Lisa, Ebony, and Jen

H611 Teaching team

richard_weissbourd — 2022-04-26 00:43:20 UTC

Hi Kiran, Eric, Joseph, Annie and MG,

Thanks so much for being so fabulous! This was an ambitious, wild ride, and it was infused all along the way with your great intelligence and kindness. Thank you for your deeply thoughtful teaching, for your great care for our students, for all your support and for steadying me when I was uncertain. Thank you for your keen teaching instincts. Thank you for making this fun. Eric and Kiran-- I know I need to stop asking you to teach with me, but it will be so hard! Joseph, Annie and MG-- hope you teach with me forever!

With great gratitude, love, hope and purpose,

Rick

Thank You Megan! S-105 was a much better class than it would have been if you had not been part of it.

2022-04-26 19:54:35 UTC

Kate

H311 Issues of Diversity in Cross-Cultural Counseling and Advocacy

HGSE — 2022-04-27 18:53:26 UTC

Dear Brittany, Shubh, Lisa, and Sal,

I'm not sure how we did it in 13 weeks, but we covered every (well, most) -ism in the book and brought along so many diverse voices for the ride! Thank you for always holding student stories with honor and respect, and thank you for embodying the unconditional acceptance and positive regard that serve as foundations for learning. I'm proud of the many windows and mirrors we provided, and while we many not see the fruits of our labor in the near future, I'm certain the ground has been tilled and seeds are germinating because of you! THANK YOU. I am in your corner for life.

With much gratitude,
Jo

H305M Student Mental Health for Educators

HGSE — 2022-04-27 19:11:44 UTC

Dear Sandra, Vanessa, Cathy, Shane, and Ben,

In our short and long journey together, we established a strong foundation for small yet intentional practices educators can embed at the Universal Tier to foster and promote student mental health. Thank you for modeling the very things we set out to accomplish - establishing psychological safety, building a climate of intentional vulnerability, and fostering a sense of belonging through representation and twinship. The students and I have been so blessed to access your skills and knowledge, but above all, your living and breathing example of what can happen in classrooms when we practice what we preach. THANK YOU. I am in your corner for life.

With much gratitude,
Jo

T511J, T511K, T545 Teaching Team

2022-04-30 13:59:48 UTC

My heartfelt thanks and gratitude to Toks Bakare, Eric Brown, Melissa Dearborn, Samantha Fletcher, Eileen McGivney, Melanie Shimano, Katie Sievers, and Adeeb Syed for their instruction and mentoring of our wonderful students!

To the S052 Super Team

2022-05-02 16:30:10 UTC

Amazing work. S052 is always a difficult course to TF for, and I am so, so thankful for the team that we had this year. Thank you for your excellent attention to details. Thank you for your commitment to helpful and formative feedback for students. Thank you for your patience working with, not one but THREE instructors. Just when it felt like we finally sorted everything out, the semester was already ending.

I am certain you have each saved the class, many times over, in ways that I will never fully grasp or realize. I can only offer, as meager recompense, a boundless gratitude.

- Eddie

Thanks A722 Team

2022-05-02 19:21:26 UTC

Dear Emily, Dustin, Nick, & Sarah,

Thanks for being so helpful to the students during A722 (Facilitating Professional Learning for Adults). You provided invaluable guidance to them as they prepared for their small group meetings. You gave them thoughtful feedback on all of their reflections & final project. You helped to make a very complicated course (in terms of meetings & logistics) much simpler for me & for our students. I hope you have a wonderful, restful summer!

<3 Candice

Thanks A011B Team

2022-05-02 19:23:41 UTC

Dear Andrea, Jack, & Sophie,

Thanks for everything you did for A011B (Collaborative & Participatory Evaluation). You helped support our students through an authentic, "messy" project, which allowed them to better support the partner organizations that they were working with. You gave them thoughtful & timely feedback on their assignments. I know that students were grateful for you! I hope you have a wonderful, restful summer.

<3 Candice

Thank you S022 Team

lmiratrix — 2022-05-02 19:52:10 UTC

The collection of you three was incredible: so many students said how much they appreciated the work you all did, and also how you were all so different and provided different things. Despite the scheduling and the conflicts in our schedules, we managed to pull off a great course, and set thousands (well, tens) of flowers a'blooming.

A313 Migration & Education

2022-05-02 19:53:49 UTC

Dear Edom,
I can't thank you enough for the incredible support you have given me and the students this semester. We have all learned so much from your brilliance, compassion, expertise, honesty, and humor! Please know that you have a forever cheerleader and supporter here and I cannot wait to see what you in the future. As you heard from the students on Wednesday, together we were able to build a special community this spring. I appreciate your hard word, your commitment and your inputs every class. Thank you for keeping me grounded and giving me helpful feedback.
From your fan,
Gabi

Thank you Masha!

lmiratrix — 2022-05-02 19:56:04 UTC

This bunny depicts what I would have been like sans your assistance. Thank you for helping me build a seminar from scratch, and for helping develop all of my vague ideas and incomplete starts, and for handling all the tech and minutiae. It would not have gone well, had you not been part of this.

So excited to keep working with you, Orelia and Caroline!

2022-05-02 20:01:01 UTC

THANK YOU for helping to conceive, design, and plan our mouthful of a class, "Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery: A Normative Case Study Writing Initiative." Under trying circumstances, I think we were knock-it-out-of-the-park successful in terms of achieving some big goals, and I am so glad we will continue working together on this this summer and next year!
Yours, Meira

Sam and Catherine: No fancy videos (I need you to do those!); just sincere thanks for your outstanding work in A770. The students benefited greatly from your advising and your feedback on papers. The course benefited hugely from your ideas about how to make it more engaging and creative. And I benefited most of all from the opportunity to work with you, both of you so smart, so talented, and so caring. You are impressive leaders and exemplary people. --🙏 ❤Judy

2022-05-02 20:04:27 UTC

Many Thanks

2022-05-02 20:10:01 UTC

Dear Emily and Linda,
I am bursting with gratitude for your tireless enthusiasm and support for each and every student this semester. I am in awe of your positive outlook no matter what challenges we faced you brought calm strength and confidence to our community. You took time to see the strengths that our students brought to our learning and so generously shared your expertise. Thank you. I look forward to many more opportunities to learn with and from you, Rhonda

Thank You A147 Team!

bianca_baldridge — 2022-05-02 20:18:54 UTC

Thank you Zenzile, Abby, and Martha (ahem - Dr. Franco!)! I'm so glad we had the opportunity to work together this semester. Each of you were integral to our class community in Education + Resistance in Community-based Orgs. The class was enhanced by your expertise, your support for student well-being, and your passion for thinking through the joys and tension of community-based education. Each of you brought unique perspectives to the class based on your own brilliant scholarship. I'm deeply grateful for your support. THANK YOU! - bjb

Thank You, H341 Dream Team!

2022-05-02 20:29:18 UTC

Shandra, Matt and Donald,

What a team! - I feel so fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with such an amazing trio. You each grounded the course in important and meaningful ways. I found myself looking forward to our Thursday meetings, if only to laugh with you all. Thank you for thoughtfully engaging with the content and reminding me to go easy on myself too!

I leave you each with the following:

Donald, 3 large bags of carrots to offset your less healthy choices

Matt, a string to attach your hat to your backpack, it will save you some steps

Shandra, more Wednesday afternoon commitments so that you will always have an excuse to treat yourself, because you deserve it.

With love and appreciation, Mandy

BIG Thanks to Margaret Chumley!

2022-05-02 20:37:58 UTC

You played such a central role in creating the warm and supportive culture in H 390 and I am forever grateful. I appreciated having a partner in this course, especially as we navigated a few curve balls this year. Despite the difficulty you faced in your school, you still showed up ready to share your expertise with students and that has been a gift. Thank you, Mandy

H310 April and Joseph

2022-05-03 01:50:42 UTC

April and Joseph,

You are simply and truly the best! This course is a "hang on to your hats" sprint, and it was such a joy to be on this run with you. You are both gifted, wise, thoughtful teachers. I have learned a ton from both of you, and you made the work so much lighter and fun.

Stay wonderful and thanks so much,

Rick

Thank you, Lily and Eva, for TFing S-061!

2022-05-03 13:37:44 UTC

Eva, Lily, thank you so much for all that you did to support S-061 and everyone's educational measurement journey this past fall!

Eva, because you've seen this content evolve over the years, I appreciated how you took the time to remind students to be patient with their learning journeys and embrace their role as lifelong learners. I was also grateful for your sharp and organized feedback for the Conversational Celebration of Learning (where I didn't even give you and Lily a template, but you cobbled one together nonetheless) and for your insightful and detailed feedback on student final projects. I was very lucky to be able to work with you!

Lily, you, too, have seen this content evolve since your Ed.M., and I appreciate how you not only communicated the material fluently but organized it, for example, with some well-structured code libraries and weekly layouts in Canvas that I will be using for years to come. I appreciated your incisive feedback, too, and how you looked out for students, including making sure everyone got their plushies! Finally, I love how well you and Eva worked so well together, a model of TF collaboration and care. I look forward to continuing to work with you in the years to come!

With gratitude,

Andrew

Thank you Ashley and Orelia!

lizdawesduraisingh — 2022-05-03 14:25:22 UTC

Dear Ashley and Orelia,
It was a true pleasure to work with you again this year! You were both such a positive presence in S510F/H and made hugely insightful contributions week after week. You consistently encouraged and reassured students while at the same pushing them to do their best work, which sometimes included grappling with difficult or uncomfortable questions. You always had great ideas for how to move our collective learning forward and you amply demonstrated your ongoing commitment to students and to the HGSE community as a whole, not to mention to the field of education and to the general bettering of human society. I have learned so much from both of you and thank you from the bottom of my heart for your many contributions.
Liz

Thank you, Callie!

2022-05-03 15:13:53 UTC

Thanks, Callie, for helping out Avriel and me with our brand new A218a course! It was great getting to work with you, and seeing how quickly you were able to catch the vision of the course and make stuff happen. Thanks for all your beautiful, detailed feedback on student work, thanks for being so communicative with us in helping set up our back end and spreadsheets and things, thanks for your great suggestions for us as we made decisions about the course, and thanks for your patience with us as we were figuring everything out. You're the best.

Hope you have a wonderful summer!
Emma & Avriel

T522, T522M, T523M Mentor Team Extraordinaire

david_dockterman — 2022-05-03 16:23:46 UTC

Ann, Chris, Juliette, Lisa, Phil, and Rose: What an incredible resource each of you provided to the students of T522! The lessons, mentoring, and guidance you shared are still emerging for students as they leverage what they learned in T522 in other courses and in job interviews. I hope you'll be willing once again to find time in your busy professional lives to engage with another amazing student cohort in the fall of 2022.
And a special shoutout to Juliette for all the one-on-one project and personal mentoring to students in T522M and T523M. Your organizational skills and industry knowledge are a treasure for me...and for the students.
THANK YOU!!!

Thank You, Amanda and Kidus

keith_collar — 2022-05-03 19:21:00 UTC

Dear Amanda and Kidus: Thank you for your outstanding work this year as the Teaching Fellows for S-997. You have been extraordinary partners in supporting HGSE students in their internships. I am deeply grateful for your time, your care for the students, and your insights on how to make S-997 a rich and rewarding experience. Please know that you have made such important contributions to the course, both for this year and for the future. I wish you all the best as you move ahead and I will always appreciate the opportunity to have worked with you this year. Best, Keith

Thank you Sandra & Tiffany

2022-05-03 20:12:15 UTC

Thank you both for your amazing contributions to H610L this spring! You really helped to improve the course with your creative ideas for the sections, and you went above and beyond with your support for the students on their final projects. I really enjoyed teaching this course with both of you. We should do it again!!
Meredith

Thank you Rosa & Ayelet!

2022-05-03 20:24:37 UTC

H811F seems so long ago, but having your help in that course got the year off to a great start! Thank you for your dedication to the students and their experiences in the classroom environment, and for your efforts running the sections and facilitating final projects. I appreciated your advice and feedback along the way and the course will be even better next time because of your contributions. I'm so grateful for your hard work and partnership!
Meredith

Thank you, Team S052!!!

2022-05-03 20:50:28 UTC

Dear S052 TF Team: Lily An, Nick Balisciano, Edwin Chng, Diana Feng, and Amy Stockton,

Thank you for your excellent work this semester! You have kept the trains running and the ship afloat, and I could not be more grateful!

You’ve all done such an outstanding job supporting student learning, the instructor team, and each other. I especially appreciated that we could think together as a team about how to organize ourselves and our work, how to best provide feedback to students, and how to make decisions about the changing pandemic circumstances.

I feel very fortunate to have worked with each of you this semester. Thank you for making S052 so great!

Warmly,
Courtney

Thank you, Sibylla & Nancy!

2022-05-03 21:13:52 UTC

Dear Sibylla and Nancy,

Thank you for your support, work, and care in TFing H115! I’m so grateful that we were able to work together, again!!

Your expertise working with students, pushing their thinking, providing supportive feedback, and shaping their projects were true gifts.

You've made invaluable contributions to H115 these past two years. I’m grateful for the countless ways you’ve improved the course, supported me, and truly ensured the course’s success. I appreciate you!

Warmly,

Courtney

2022-05-04 01:22:30 UTC

Dear Adam, André, Anthony, Berenice, Bonnie, Charisse, Penny, Stephen, and Tasheka,

Thank you for giving so much of yourselves as teaching team members for A310G, A310N, and A310O. Our students benefit so much from your wisdom, and I am so grateful for your partnership.

Cheers,

Kathy

Thank you H110L Team!!

2022-05-04 15:21:38 UTC

Dear Janzen, Ben, Silvana, Lexi, and Michelle,

Thank you so much for all that you did to make “Becoming an Expert Learner” a personalized and thoughtful journey for the students and to help them apply the concepts to their own lives. I was so impressed by your ability to engage with their thinking on so many levels and to gently support them in their productive struggles. The only reason that a course like this works is because of the expert and caring educators working with me! Thank you, too, for bringing your patience, humility, and sense of humor. You are an amazing team! Wishing you some good R and R this summer (with metacognition and popcorn)!

Love and Best Wishes,

Tina

Thank you T543 Teaching Team!!

2022-05-04 15:51:12 UTC

Dear Janzen, Ben, and Megan,

To use an analogy that you all know, how would we ever get to the gems inside the geode without you? There is nothing easy about the journey that is T543 and certainly nothing easy about TF-ing it. That said, you expertly helped the students to drill down and find the geode gems of wisdom resulting from their efforts. I am so appreciative for the central roles that you play in this course, for all that you do to cheer students through the tough spots (a special talent of yours, Janzen!), to help them enjoy the journey and take it in stride (something you particularly helped them with, Ben), and to share the wisdom of a longer perspective with the students and teaching team (one of many things you shared, Megan)! So, while active processing and effortful, hard work are essential to deep learning such that there are no gifts in education, I certainly feel as though I received a huge gift in being able to work with the three of you. I am deeply, deeply grateful!

With love and gratitude,

Tina

Thank you, Fei!

sichen422 — 2022-05-04 15:55:09 UTC

Dear Fei,

I appreciate everything you've done for the H210L and H210M over the past year. With your patient and meticulous help, both the student and I have learned a lot. I am incredibly grateful for the office hours you gave to the students and the workshop on research methods. Your detailed explanations enriched the students' research skills.

I wish you all the best in your future Ph.D. studies. I also hope to have the opportunity to work with you again in the future. It is truly my luck to have a responsible and capable TF like you.

衷心感谢你这一年的付出！祝你一切顺利！

Best,
Si

Thank you, dear Eva, Maya, Orelia, Ranya, Sandra!

sarahdrydenpeterson — 2022-05-05 11:59:40 UTC

Dear Eva, Maya, Orelia, Ranya, and Sandra,

What a team! Each of YOU make teaching and learning true practices of love.

Your questions.
Your visions.
Your care.
Your commitment to supporting students in the big ideas of the class and the individual ways in which these ideas resonate for them in particular times, spaces, and relationships.

Here's to future-building together!

With deep thanks and with love,
Sarah

Thank you, dear Alysha and Zuhra!

sarahdrydenpeterson — 2022-05-05 12:07:19 UTC

Dear Alysha and Zuhra,

How I love working together as a team! I looked so forward to class, sitting together in a circle, talking about research design, interview guides, ethical dilemmas, building relationships with participants, teachers' work on systemic inequities in Boston schools. So clear to me was how each member of our class appreciated learning from each other, both from experiences we have each had and were having together, as we immersed ourselves in a collective research project with a partner organization. Always a leap of faith, and a ton of work!, and I am so grateful to have taken this leap together with you both.

With love,
Sarah

GICE Teaching Team Extra-Ordinaire!

sarahdrydenpeterson — 2022-05-05 13:24:05 UTC

Dear Abhinav, Catherine, Devika, Jonathan, Sarzah, and Stephanie,

How much I have learned on this GICE adventure with you this year! Thank you for jumping in with your whole selves to something so new and so in the process of becoming. YOU created the kinds of spaces our students were seeking to think across classes, reflect on their commitments, and aspire to what comes next for them. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

With love,
Sarah

To the HPL Teaching Team

2022-05-05 13:28:18 UTC

Dear amazing colleagues on Team HPL,
Every time I talk about HPL, one of the first things I share is how remarkable the work is that you do in building each cohort's learning community. You are truly the "Welcome to HGSE" squad, creating a context for nervous and brilliant learners from around the world to begin to experience what it is like to be a student at HGSE -- in a setting you create that is warm, humanizing, engaging, and powerful. HPL, when it is at its best, is you. So many HGSE students tell me how much they adore learning with and from you and how you created the conditions for a confident start to their program. You also guide students through an experience of writing that is meant to empower them and show them that "they got this" as they start graduate school. I know I speak for all of the faculty and TLL team involved with HPL when I say that your energy and caring is the secret sauce. I am deeply grateful for you, and I look forward to working with many of you in the summer ahead, where my confidence that we can do right by our students is entirely grounded in knowing the difference you make. With gratitude and celebration, Matt

Thank you Nick!!

2022-05-05 15:21:31 UTC

Thanks Nick for your skilled teaching and thought partnership this semester. Our students and I benefited tremendously from your insights as a non-profit leader and your support on feedback, readings, technology and many other areas during the course. I am deeply grateful and look forward to learning about the great work you will lead in your residency! All the best, Kenny

Gladys, Sandra, & Kaitlin

2022-05-05 15:22:36 UTC

Dear Gladys, Sandra, & Kaitlin,
¡¡Gracias, gracias, gracias!! What another challenging year this has been, but we made it together and --we can proudly say-- successfully! I could not have made it without each of your committed, passionate, creative, thoughtful, and empathic contributions! I know how grateful students were throuhouthg this year to have you as teachers and mentors! I look forward to many more opportunities to continue to learn with and from you... to continue to learn how to support our students' and our own growth in the complex and endless journey towards building ever more meaningful and equitable learning communities and societies!
Thank YOU,
Paola

Thanks, Zach

2022-05-05 15:54:12 UTC

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Thank you, Michal!

2022-05-05 16:05:58 UTC

Thanks, Michal, for being a terrific TF, as always, in what has been an extremely challenging period.
H-250 and ah-103 would not be the same without you!
Best. P.H.

Shenette & Emily, you rock!

2022-05-05 19:27:42 UTC

Thank you so very much to you both for being my thought partners, collaborators, and inspiration. From the never-ending work of trio placements and mentoring coaching practice to engaging alumni and supporting final projects, your contributions made it all happen. Love you both!
Allison

DrElAmin — 2022-05-06 12:02:29 UTC

Dear Michael,
It's been such a pleasure and an opportunity to be able to work together during T-014 this year! Thank you for your love, spirit, and hard work and for having my back in those moments when questions of power, race, and other arose while we got ready for class. ;) I loved getting to know you better and talking every Wednesday afternoon. I am not going to miss our classroom, but I am going to miss our time together and our weekly chats, and your kind, dedicated and right on time way of supporting the course, me and the community. I hope this was just the first of many adventures to come!