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Share an Ice Cold Coca-Cola Sweepstakes
Deadline: August 31, 2017
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MedEvac Foundation International Children’s Scholarship
Deadline is July 31, 2017
http://usascholarships.com/medevac-foundation-international-childrens-scholarship/
07.05.16 It’s crazy to think that my freshmen year of college is over. I can’t wait to go to Italy this summer and begin my sophomore year in September.
xx Sunny
So Nixon’s dumb ass decides to widen the war by bombing Cambodia…
11th grade U.S. History student, Oakland CA
At the end of the school year many teachers are feeling a bit low. Reading this sentence makes me feel like I’ve done my job.
(via guessimdumb)
Share an Ice Cold Coca-Cola Sweepstakes
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Army ROTC Scholarships to Apply
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I can’t wait to go back to uni!
xx Sunny
Share an Ice Cold Coca-Cola Sweepstakes
Deadline: August 31, 2017
http://usascholarships.com/share-ice-cold-coca-cola-sweepstakes/
MedEvac Foundation International Children’s Scholarship
Deadline is July 31, 2017
http://usascholarships.com/medevac-foundation-international-childrens-scholarship/
14.4.16 Flowers are finally beginning to bloom on my campus.
xx Sunny
Army ROTC Scholarships to Apply
We would like to help you further your education and becoming a leader in the World’s Greatest Army. There are many scholarship opportunities available to helps youth achieve their academic dreams. We have compiled a short list of ongoing Army ROTCScholarships for those students who desire to be commissioned as officers in the Army after graduation from college. Top universities, colleges, and organizations are proud to announce all the below mentioned Army ROTC Scholarships such as The Army ROTC 4-Year High School Scholarship, The High School Army ROTC Scholarship, The Virginia Tech Army ROTC, and The Designee National Scholarships, etc.
Deadline varies according to program
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NRT “Share Your Moving Story” Scholarship Program
Share your story today for the chance to win a scholarship to the college of your choice.To support high school students and their families who have experienced a move, NRT Relocation & Referral Services is proud to announce the “Share Your Moving Story” Scholarship Program. The contest is open to high school students expected to graduate in or before the spring semester of 2018. Up to ten scholarships of $2,000 each will be awarded to put towards college education (total $20,000).
Deadline is June 30, 2017
http://usascholarships.com/nrt-share-moving-story-scholarship-program/
Scholarship: The CM CARES Religious Scholars Program
Application Deadline: April 15th, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/cm-cares-religious-scholars-program/
As summer comes to an end for me I wanted to redraw the very first drawings I did of the Crystal Gems. I remember telling myself to draw something everyday for the summer, I usually end up not following through with it though, but I did this summer. I’m so glad I did because LOOK AT THAT IMPROVEMENT!!! I have been drawing for all my life, but never have I ever seen this much improvement from myself in just a few months. Damn I got good. For artists out there thinking that you’ll never improve, don’t give up! A drawing everyday will definitely help you improve, and it doesn’t even have to be a full drawing it could just be a small doodle! Just something to get your hand moving to create something.
On another note, I won’t be posting as frequently because I just moved and like no internet ._. BUT still feel free to ask me anything, commissions are always open, and just talk to me. I’ll still be on tumblr, but through mobile.
Scholarship: The CM CARES Religious Scholars Program
Application Deadline: April 15th, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/cm-cares-religious-scholars-program/
Temple University ‘19
Come chat <3
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Scholarship: The CM CARES Religious Scholars Program
Application Deadline: April 15th, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/cm-cares-religious-scholars-program/
The leading scorer in international soccer history. So stoked to catch the U.S. women’s national team training on campus today!
Scholarship: The CM CARES Religious Scholars Program
Application Deadline: April 15th, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/cm-cares-religious-scholars-program/
Throwback Thursday: Gunner’s Mate School
Located at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in suburban Chicago, the Gunner’s Mate School was the world’s largest steel mullion and glass curtain wall building when completed in 1954. Spanned by overhead trusses, the building’s column-free interior was vast enough to accommodate full-scale mockups of Navy gun decks, where cadets could simulate conditions at sea. This early work by Bruce Graham and William Priestley was among the earliest realizations of the concept of universal space: the principle that well-designed, open-span spaces can adapt to a multitude of functions over time. The structural clarity achieved with the Gunner’s Mate School would inform many later SOM projects, from the John Hancock Center to Willis Tower.
Scholarship: The CM CARES Religious Scholars Program
Application Deadline: April 15th, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/cm-cares-religious-scholars-program/
When you factor in tuition, room and board, books and other fees, this is what going to a top 10 school will run you yearly. And this photoset doesn’t even include the most expensive school of the top 10. Yes, it gets worse.
Scholarship: Nordson BUILDS Scholarship Program
Application Deadline: May 15, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/nordson-builds-scholarship-program/
Scholarship: Nordson BUILDS Scholarship Program
Application Deadline: May 15, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/nordson-builds-scholarship-program/
Back in September, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni included this question about the Supreme Court in their survey of college grads. The 10% that answered Judith Sheindlin should have you very concerned for our country.
Logic of FAFSA / US College Financial Aid
Me: Okay but I'm not a dependent, my parents haven't claimed me in two years. I claimed myself. I am independent. Why do I need to turn in my parental information or the form saying they don't support me and I don't get shit?
FAFSA: Oh that! It's because you're not 24 or married. So you're not an independent.
Me: But I pay my own bills. I live separately from my parents. They don't give me anything.
FAFSA: Nope. Not an independent. You can give us their tax info and see if you could qualify for more.
Me: Okay here it is.
FAFSA: Oh...No you don't qualify for any more. Sorry. But hey! Two more years and you'll be independent.
Me: FUCK YOU FAFSA!!
Scholarship: Nordson BUILDS Scholarship Program
Application Deadline: May 15, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/nordson-builds-scholarship-program/
Scholarship: Nordson BUILDS Scholarship Program
Application Deadline: May 15, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/nordson-builds-scholarship-program/
found on Pitzer College campus in Claremont, California
Scholarship: Nordson BUILDS Scholarship Program
Application Deadline: May 15, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/nordson-builds-scholarship-program/
35, 35 electors would need to flip their votes from Trump to Clinton to change the election’s outcome…
Scholarship: Nordson BUILDS Scholarship Program
Application Deadline: May 15, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/nordson-builds-scholarship-program/
A guide to being a vocal citizen
For people wondering how to take action post-election of a racist demagogue (pulled from Twitter and cleaned up):
Make a spreadsheet or a file for your representatives with names, addresses to their offices, phone numbers, and contact forms. Put everyone there. Make a note in your calendar app to check in on issues once a month.
Pay attention to news. If you get angry, upset, or worried, seek support from friends but ALSO shoot these reps an email, too. Be courteous but firm and blunt. It’s a numbers game. Often we remain invisible because we don’t go to events and rallies and can’t be physically present. But we can attach our names to emails, we can write letters, we can be vocal. We don’t have to be invisible.
You can do this with your national reps, state reps, and local reps. If someone reps you anywhere, note them. Open a line and revisit it. It’s hard work and slow. One email at a time. One letter at a time. One call at a time. Emails are easy these days, so splurge every few months on a stamp and send a letter if you can. Put your humanity in front of these people. Flout it. Some won’t care, but others will. Change ONE mind and results can cascade.
Rural areas are bubbles full of bigotry and now it’s newly revealed. But we white people who live here have the clout and power! We can speak up when our reps say terrible things, and do terrible things, and vote terrible ways. We can go “I am disappointed in you.” It’s work, but as we’ve seen the last six months, it’s time for us to do that work. If someone goes “who are your reps” you gotta know. If you don’t know and you’re mad about this election, it’s time to create that file and keep it with you and use it.
The time for social media rants only is over. Or, do those, but maybe pull those threads out into a paragraph and send them to your reps. And don’t ONLY email or contact when things go badly. Also reach out when things go right. Even if they voted AGAINST something. Treat them like you would want to be treated if you were wrong or mistaken. But we’ve gotta reach out and let them know we’re here.
Anyway, I know this is hard work. If you need help collecting your reps, give me a ping via DM and I’ll help you get started.
Scholarship: Nordson BUILDS Scholarship Program
Application Deadline: May 15, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/nordson-builds-scholarship-program/
Advancing Black Male Student Success From Preschool Through Ph.D. by Shaun R. Harper and J. Luke Wood
Advancing Black Male Student Success presents a comprehensive portrait of Black male students at every stage in the U.S. education system: preschool and kindergarten; elementary, middle and high schools; community colleges and four-year postsecondary institutions; and master’s and doctoral programs. Each chapter is a synthesis of existing research on experience, educational outcomes, and persistent inequities at each pipeline point. Throughout the book, data are included to provide statistical portraits of the status of Black boys and men. Authors include, in each chapter, forward-thinking recommendations for education policy, research and practice.
[BOOK LINK]
Scholarship: Nordson BUILDS Scholarship Program
Application Deadline: May 15, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/nordson-builds-scholarship-program/
I Lie About My Teaching
Here is an interesting article I came across in The Atlantic.
The story of a Teacher and how we portray our lives to others in the field. What are your thoughts?
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I liked Devon. We were all first and second-year teachers in that seminar—peers, in theory—but my colleague Devon struck me as a cut above. I’d gripe about a classroom problem, and without judgment or rebuke, he’d outline a thoughtful, inventive solution, as if my blundering incompetence was perhaps a matter of personal taste, and he didn’t wish to impose his own sensibilities. When it fell upon us each to share a four-minute video of our teaching, I looked forward to Devon’s. I expected a model classroom, his students as pious and well-behaved as churchgoers.
Instead, the first half of Devon’s four-minute clip showed him fiddling with an overhead projector; in the second half, he was trotting blandly through homework corrections. The kids rocked side to side, listless. For all his genuine wisdom, Devon looked a little green, a little lost.
He looked, in short, like me.
Teachers self-promote. In that, we’re no different than everyone else: proudly framing our breakthroughs, hiding our blunders in locked drawers, forever perfecting our oral résumés. This isn’t all bad. My colleagues probably have more to learn from my good habits (like the way I use pair work) than my bad ones (like my sloppy system of homework corrections), so I might as well share what’s useful. In an often-frustrating profession, we’re nourished by tales of triumph. A little positivity is healthy.
But sometimes, the classrooms we describe bear little resemblance to the classrooms where we actually teach, and that gap serves no one.
Any honest discussion between teachers must begin with the understanding that each of us mingles the good with the bad. One student may experience the epiphany of a lifetime, while her neighbor drifts quietly off to sleep. In the classroom, it’s never pure gold or pure tin; we’re all muddled alloys.
I taught once alongside a first-year teacher, Lauren, who didn’t grasp this. As a result, she compared herself unfavorably to everyone else. Every Friday, when we adjourned to the bar down the street, she’d decry her own flaws, meticulously documenting her mistakes for us, castigating herself to no end. The kids liked her. The teachers liked her. From what I’d seen, she taught as well as any first-year could. But she saw her own shortcomings too vividly and couldn’t help reporting them to anyone who’d listen.
She was fired three months into the year. You talk enough dirt about yourself and people will start to believe it.
Omission is the nature of storytelling; describing a complex space—like a classroom—requires a certain amount of simplification. Most of us prefer to leave out the failures, the mishaps, the wrong turns. Some, perhaps as a defensive posture, do the opposite: Instead of overlooking their flaws and miscues, they dwell on them, as Lauren did. The result is that two classes, equally well taught, may come across like wine and vinegar, depending on how their stories are told.
Take the first year I taught psychology. I taught one section; my colleague Erin taught the other.
When I talked to Erin that semester, she’d glow about her class. Kids often approached her in the afternoons to follow up on questions, and to thank her for teaching their favorite course. Her students kept illustrated vocab journals totaling hundreds of words. They drew posters of neurons, crafted behaviorist training regimes, and designed imaginative “sixth senses” for the human body. Erin’s mentor teacher visited monthly and dubbed it an “amazing class” with “incredible teaching.”
Catch me in an honest mood, and I’ll admit that I bombed the semester. I lectured every day from text-filled overhead slides. Several of my strongest students told me that they hated the class and begged for alternative work. I wasted three weeks on a narrow, confining research assignment, demanding heavy work with little payoff. One student openly plagiarized another. I wound up failing several students who, in hindsight, I should have passed. Yet I know that this apparent train wreck of a class was, in truth, no worse than Erin’s.
That’s because I made Erin up. The two classes described above were the same class: mine. Each description is true, and neither, of course, is wholly honest.
I’m as guilty as anyone of distorting my teaching. When talking to other teachers, I often play up the progressive elements: Student-led discussions. Creative projects. Guided discovery activities. I mumble through the minor, inconvenient fact that my pedagogy is, at its core, deeply traditional. I let my walk and my talk drift apart. Not only does this thwart other teachers in their attempts to honestly evaluate my approach, but it blocks my own self-evaluation. I can’t grow properly unless I see my own work with eyes that are sympathetic, but clear and unyielding.
I had a private theme song my first year teaching: “Wear and Tear,” by Pete Yorn. It was my alarm in the mornings, my iPod jam on the commute home. The chorus ended with a simple line that spun through my head in idle moments and captured the essence of a year I spent making mistake after rookie mistake: Can I say what I do?
It’s no easy task for teachers. But I think we owe it, to ourselves if to no one else, to tell the most honest stories that we can. I’ll only advance as a teacher, and offer something of value to those around me, if I’m able to say what I do.
Source: The Atlantic
Share some feedback. What are your thoughts of the article?
Scholarship: Forest County Potawatomi Foundation Lois Crowe Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 30, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/forest-county-potawatomi-foundation-lois-crowe-scholarship/
Meghan Duggan - University of Wisconsin (2006-2011)
Scholarship: Forest County Potawatomi Foundation Lois Crowe Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 30, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/forest-county-potawatomi-foundation-lois-crowe-scholarship/
Scholarship: Forest County Potawatomi Foundation Lois Crowe Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 30, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/forest-county-potawatomi-foundation-lois-crowe-scholarship/
Scholarship: Forest County Potawatomi Foundation Lois Crowe Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 30, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/forest-county-potawatomi-foundation-lois-crowe-scholarship/
WELCOME BACK COLLEGE FOOTBALL!
Scholarship: Forest County Potawatomi Foundation Lois Crowe Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 30, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/forest-county-potawatomi-foundation-lois-crowe-scholarship/
Jourdan Lewis, that is how you end a game
Scholarship: Forest County Potawatomi Foundation Lois Crowe Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 30, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/forest-county-potawatomi-foundation-lois-crowe-scholarship/
On Thursday morning, chancellor Beverly Kopper of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater sent out a public message condemning two students for posting a picture of themselves on Snapchat wearing blackface. Thing is, the students weren’t in blackface at all.
Scholarship: Accenture Student Veterans Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 31, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/accenture-student-veterans-scholarship/
Heroic Army Veteran Stood Up To School Shooter, Got Shot 5 Times
Stories of bravery have started to surface amid the terrible tragedy that left 10 dead and seven more injured at an Oregon community college.Students in Roseburg were starting their fourth day of classes at Umpqua Community College when shots rang out Thursday.
“It’s my son’s birthday today,” the 30-year-old told the shooter.
Scholarship: Accenture Student Veterans Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 31, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/accenture-student-veterans-scholarship/
The king of veterans, Shuutoku High School!
Scholarship: Accenture Student Veterans Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 31, 2017
Link: http://usascholarships.com/accenture-student-veterans-scholarship/
The first weekend
After the intense 9 month wait to begin school, my three day weekend was spent in equal parts study, play, and rest. In an attempt to get some sleep for week two, insomnia strikes once again, ensuring a cranky, unmotivated morning to come. Thus, this blog was born. I hope to generate an accurate record of my uneasy transition from military to civilian to student, so keep tuned in for the adventures to come.
