Jeta+Donovan

Me and Henry David Thoreau

I've been teaching (i.e. making FANTASTIC bulletin boards) in NYC public schools for seven years now. I entered teaching as a TFA corps member and have grown to truly love my work. I've taught mostly middle school English, but I've dabbled a bit in elementary. While quite often the city school system makes me want to throw myself into traffic, I am also constantly amazed by the hundreds of committed, thoughtful educators I meet all the time, everyday (including yourselves). I'm a doctoral student here at Fordham in the Language, Literacy, and Learning program. I teach part time at k-8 school, doing reading intervention with struggling readers. This semester, I am working on the first three chapters of my dissertation. I will be writing on students' language ideologies of code-switching. I also work on a research team that studies teenagers' digital literacy. I absolutely love working with teachers, and I am thus very excited about our semester. When school and work aren't tsunami-ing my life, I like a good dose of fiction and fresh-baked goods. I like friends with talents (since I don't really have any performable ones), and I get my fine manners from my southern upbringing. Looking forward to a great semester....