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Caf\u00e9 Conversation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A place to comment and dialogue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Preface to the Memoir.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0talking about whiteness, origins of the book, keeping teaching real, race-relationship-reciprocity, use of stories, reformation of my teaching identity<\/em><\/p>\n

Prologue.<\/strong> Making That Which Is Known To Others, Known To Self.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 my white privilege,\u00a0Jo-Hari\u2019s window, opening up the windows, Matt\u2019s story of being discriminated against in a Southern Black restaurant, being part of the multicultural matrix that is this country, my hope these stories are useful to others. come along with me<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter One. Race Becomes The Window.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0how I\u2019ve come at the issue of race, prior knowledge is wired into my brain, the story of Pal, Dana\u2019s Beagle, sneaking looks at America\u2019s dirty pictures, the television images of the fifties and sixties and their effect on me, surrounded by silence, power, privilege, and pigmentation, the power we (I) have and the need to exercise it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Two. First Encounters Of Another Kind.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Moving to white Hamilton, the Townies and the Aggies, stereotypes are real people, the summer migrant farm laborers (aka pea pickers), Samuel\u2019s return every year, Charlie Wright the drum major, Bruce’s snapping turtle soup, my early education in privilege, in racism<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Three. The Down Side of Dr. Shame<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0my Dad’s alcoholism hurt me (us)<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Four. The Up-Side of Dr. Shame<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0my Dad’s alcoholism helped me<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Five. Urban Teaching\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0getting into college was a process of finding my way, getting out of college, rejection, the Urban Teacher Preparation Program and how I got there, falling in love with teaching, Joe Bongo and every bird, teachers who cared, my most successful unit, power-connection-identity, keys to the kingdom of learning a la Fantini and Weinstein, moving on to GLS<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Six. Urban Education<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0what living through the \u201960s was like for me, it was crazy times, digging in to social change, the social activism of Father Welch and Grace Episcopal Church, Mr. Rat-bone and the police, The Montgomery March, bullet holes in Steve\u2019s car, learning in UTPP, the evening seminar and an emotional cauldron, captured by urban ed as reaching for the democratic vision that is America<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Seven. The GLS Program: My First Real Teaching Job\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Leaving UTPP, my first teaching job, academic instructor at GLS \u2013 last stop before reform school, classroom meetings work even with these boys, thank-you Mr. William (schools without failure) Glasser,\u00a0 is that a real gun, four lessons learned, Ricky and Donny and Steve and Eddy educate me, leaving GLS<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Eight. My Intellectual Beginnings of Thinking About Difference: Conceptual Systems Theory.\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0Lewin’s dictum, David Hunt and Conceptual Systems Theory, The Madison Junior High School Grouping Experiment, matched and mis-matched environments, behavior(mis) as a function of the wrong environment, using CST in my own classroom, a equitably better way to group, better for the students and better for the teacher<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Nine. Roosevelt Junior High School<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0My introduction to RJHS and the paddle, Diltz the Principal, meeting Eleanor, the emotional arc of the year, using the paddle – hitting Della, reflecting on my act of violence, the 7Js visit Common Council, Cool Jerome comes through, the non-removal of the Elms, success is a risk, getting Gloria connected, Diltz does me no favors, prisoners in our own classrooms<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Ten. Connection Personified: The Other Mr. Rogers<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Frank Tuitt – being pedagogically transparent, Carl Rogers and Freedom to Learn, experiencing your own empiricism, testing wags the dog, Rogers meet Tuitt<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Eleven. Multiage Classrooms. The Power of Mismatched Environments\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>coming to Vermont, The Open Classroom, the central role of cognitive dissonance in learning, why mixed age groupings, Lady Plowden’s report, Ned Flanders and the analysis of verbal interaction, multiage up close, overlapping complexity, explore time under a microscope, Anne and her teaching, from the transcribed research journal expanded edition, a snapshot of activities pursued, Explore Time as engaged activity, Explore time as Gold, Multiage worked – the sadness of its loss, multiage and graded settings, multiage declines with NCLB, uninspired teaching and disaffected youth<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Twelve. APEX. The American Primary Experience Program\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>what’s an Apex, context, a few vignettes: 1-the students bring forward a proposal, 2-the apex paper airplane contest, 3-laying groundwork for a culminating experience, 4-problem-solving the human dramas of working in the schools, controlling time and space – keys to the kingdom, real teacher, real children, real situations to learn from, making placements work, personal accountability, recognition and moving on, those who helped, the eight program competencies<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Thirteen. Mathematics and Gender\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>becoming a teacher of math methods, when the concrete is abstract – manipulative mania, Jo Sanders puts it on the table – girl discrimination, ahhhhh-the enemy is me, nailing down the locus of inequitable instruction<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Fourteen. Reframing The Career:\u00a0 Once, Twice, Three Times an Educator<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0chairing the Department of Professional Education and Curriculum Development, framing state-wide standards for teacher education, watching cognitive revision before my very eyes, this is me as a teacher – what I know and what I do, statewide workshop giver and film maker – the VISMT experience, breaking the camel\u2019s back- the math programs workshop at Barnes, rededication to university teaching – on my terms, my epiphany<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Fifteen. Dottie’s Story. Complex Instruction\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>CI-Social justice in action, <\/em>students as colleagues, Hillary, status order in the classroom, Getting My Way, Hillary in the status order, what CI requires, the hard work of CI, Dottie\u2019s success, the status treatments, Hillary\u2019s academic outcomes, Hillary is better off<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapter Sixteen. Opportunities Everywhere.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0learning in action, reactive learning, the City Hall Park Encounter-Welcome to Vermont, The Miranda Encounter-Being An Ally, the Groupwork Encounter-A Teaching Error, to conclude <\/em><\/p>\n

Epilogue<\/p>\n

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