{"id":956,"date":"2016-04-17T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/?page_id=956"},"modified":"2016-04-19T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T15:03:52","slug":"thank-you","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_984\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/IMG_6455.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-984\" class=\"wp-image-984 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/IMG_6455-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"9th Grade\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/IMG_6455-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/IMG_6455-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/IMG_6455-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/IMG_6455-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/IMG_6455-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">9th Grade<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I would not be nearly the teacher that I am today&#8211;still in the works but more learned than ever&#8211;were it not for the guidance, wisdom, and love of some key people. This page is in no way exhaustive, but I hope it begins to show how grateful I am. Thank you to&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heather Roberts, who on top of being an amazing professor is also a phenomenal human being. Heather guided our humanities cohort on a daily basis, which included writing comments that competed with\u00a0<em>War and Peace<\/em> in quality and length (unlike Tolstoy&#8217;s tome, Heather&#8217;s comments were\u00a0<em>never<\/em> boring).<\/li>\n<li>Peter Weyler, my ninth-grade mentor teacher, who consistently gave me the most efficient constructive criticism\u00a0while I evolved in classroom management every day. I cannot express enough gratitude to you for pushing me to be my best. Pete, you and I share a love of Herman Melville and Socratic seminars,\u00a0but I will always be worse at playing soccer.<\/li>\n<li>Deirdre Carlson, my eleventh-grade mentor teacher, who helped me hone my practice when I added a junior class to the mix. Your flexibility and keen eye for how I could better challenge students allowed me to demand the most from them, in addition to myself. I always appreciated the corny English\u00a0memes\u00a0via text&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/e5714422d95865b6c36ea545a0f93512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1075 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/e5714422d95865b6c36ea545a0f93512-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"e5714422d95865b6c36ea545a0f93512\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/e5714422d95865b6c36ea545a0f93512-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/e5714422d95865b6c36ea545a0f93512-148x150.jpg 148w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/e5714422d95865b6c36ea545a0f93512.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cindy Roach, my eleventh grade co-teacher, thank you for your patience with me as I figured out both teaching and co-teaching simultaneously. You have always been a voice of reason and I appreciate your dual sense of fun and no-nonsense.<\/li>\n<li>Ricci Hall, the principal of Claremont, thank you for all the wisdom and empathy of your own experiences. I will never forget two of your lines this year. From the first day of school: &#8220;In a way, the content knowledge is secondary; focus on teaching your kids to be good human beings first and the rest will follow.&#8221; And from January: &#8220;I taught history pretty poorly for the first few years; don&#8217;t be too hard on yourself.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Andrea Allen, who I have known for many years now in a couple different roles at Clark (though &#8220;friend&#8221; will stick forever), thank you for your guidance in helping me evolve from my very early days as a freshman at Clark when I told you I wanted to teach. We did it!<\/li>\n<li>Dad, you have been my rock and my role model my entire life. I appreciated the daily pep talks and text messages&#8211;it was always nice to get a friendly note to start each of my days at school. I love you.<\/li>\n<li>Cara, we made it! I am so happy that you and I could share stories of good and bad days, the best and most challenging students. I look forward to the next chapter and am so grateful you are a part of my life. I love you. (Check out her eFolio <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-cayacino\">HERE<\/a>&#8211;it&#8217;s pretty sweet.)<\/li>\n<li>To my fellow Claremont MATs, Bess and Jenny, and to all my fellow MATs this year, it was great to collaborate and share stories. You are an amazing cohort.<\/li>\n<li>To some other members of the Claremont Ubuntu Team who helped me in various ways this year: Mike Eressy, Amber Pouliot, Adelina Zaimi, Samir Tokatli, Christine Hamm, Sean Carroll, Linda Tomaino, Bob Knittle, Jesse Bicknell, Lori Simpson, and Kelly Rivera Barrios.<\/li>\n<li>To some other members of the Clark Education\u00a0Team who assisted me this year, including Jie Park, Tom Del Prete, Eric DeMeulenaere, and Cindy Gabriel.<\/li>\n<li>And, most\u00a0of all, my students. Your patience, honesty, and passion helped me a great deal this year. I hope that I can take all that I have learned and apply it to future classes. I will never forget these many stories from the past year together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_985\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/IMG_6453.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-985\" class=\"wp-image-985 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/IMG_6453-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"11th Grade\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/IMG_6453-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/IMG_6453-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/IMG_6453-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/IMG_6453-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-nporcella\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/416\/2016\/04\/IMG_6453-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">11th Grade<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would not be nearly the teacher that I am today&#8211;still in the works but more learned than ever&#8211;were it not for the guidance, wisdom, and love of some key people. This page is in no way exhaustive, but I hope it begins to show how grateful I am. 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