Welcome!

Welcome, all, to my blog which will record my inaugural teaching experiences and adventures in the balmy city of Miami! The program is run by Breakthrough Collaborative - a national non-profit that sponsors rigorous academic summer programs for middle school-aged students in 35 cities in the US. Participants are all gifted and talented, but hail from disadvantaged backgrounds. Each city's program is run entirely by college students; we comprise the Teachers, the Advisers and coordinate all field trips, projects, and performances. I'm teaching science, and bizarrely chose to teach neuroscience, so we'll see how it goes! There are 30 Teachers at my school and about 100 students; ab0ut 2/3 of the students speak Spanish as their native language. I'm living at Univ Miami which is about a 10 minute commute to the school, which is one of the oldest private schools in America, and looks pretty ritzy (both UM and the school have air conditioning...yess!)

I arrive Thursday night and partake in the welcome dinner and introductions. We then have the weekend free to explore and meet new people; Orientation and Training begin in earnest on Monday (Jun 11th) and we start teaching a week later (18th).

I'm simultaneously excited and apprehensive, but I'm sure it'll be a blast. I'm confident that I'll rid myself of my so-called "Winter Colors" kindly provided by Boston's eternal coldness.

Check back later for more details!