Last month, Cards Cook received a several thousand dollar grant to fight homelessness in Portland. Oregon Food Bank gave the CC (Cards Cook) team the money to set up a “solutions feast” where people in the homeless community come and discuss how to fix this problem. Since then, I have been racking my brain, searching […]
Read More Intolerable TolerancePhoto of my class recently at a field trip. We visited Portland Juice Company. PJC is a cold pressed juice business run by women working to increase the health of Portlanders. They have a location on the Nike Campus where they sell out almost every day.
Read More Field TripsIn 1997, Steve Jobs famously said in an interview with Businessweek Magazine “A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” I have found this to be true. When I was starting Cards Cook, I asked my friends and classmates if they would be interested in participating one […]
Read More StartingOne of the best things that I have been learning over the past several months as a teacher has been figuring out when to take advice and when to not listen to others. Most of the time, it’s the latter. I got an email three weeks into class from a student who wasn’t liking the […]
Read More Knowing when not to foldThree people have left my class since I started teaching, and it’s all my fault. The first person left because I was too stubborn. I am trying to work on this personality trait, as I feel like it is very challenging to get right. There is a fine line that must be towed when […]
Read More Stubborn absenceScanning through the faces of the students staring at me, I try to address everyone equally – as any professional teacher would. Yet even with my teacher’s hat on, I can’t help but notice a divide within my class. 22 kids walk into room 236 every A day at 1:48. There are 8 girls and […]
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