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My name is Jennifer, and I'm honored to be part of Seattle University's MIT cohort this fall. My colleagues are creative and compassionate people, and they inspire me every day. The last ten years of my life were spent teaching British literature to privileged university students in the Midwest. I left academia in large part because I wanted to work for social change and social justice in a more direct way. I am particularly interested in teaching students who have not had the many advantages that most European Americans take for granted; students who do not like school; students who have given up on the idea of school; students who, because they are intelligent in ways not traditionally recognized by public schools, do not yet understand how gifted they are and how much our society needs them; and students who think that they do not like poetry or stories. I love to be around people, and outside school I spend time with friends and family, which includes much doting on my small nephews and nieces. My favorite days are those in which I meet someone who is not like me, who sees life from a different perspective.

Tech tool #1: page 2: Smithsoniansource.org: primary documents useful for English and American History teachers (an Access Information tool) Tech tool #2: page 3: The Arab American Institute (cultural diversity resource) Tech tool #3: page 4: The Learning Network: Teaching with //The New York Times// Movie: What's the difference between a claim and a fact?

Here is a [|link] to a movie about the difference between a claim and a fact:

Link to our cohort's wikispace