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...turmoil in the industry,” he says. “I was watching my friends jump back and forth from different companies, and I decided to jump back into academia.” While pursuing his graduate degree at Stanford, Smith continued to work outside of the classroom. He both consulted and coached swimming, which he calls “a different kind of teaching.” Smith says that his most memorable coaching experience came when he persuaded a 9-year-old girl, who “was convinced that she couldn?...
...Another student, Sophie Rengarajan ’10, presented the work she did at Caltech last summer to study the effects of smells on neurons. “I think [research] really exposes you to a side of science you can’t get in the classroom,” Rengarajan said. “It allows students to be a lot more creative.” Attendees also heard speeches from three professional researchers. Edward J. Benz Jr., president and CEO of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, drew from his own experiences as an undergraduate at Princeton...
...best resource our kids have is their school faculty. I am reminded of this fact every Monday afternoon at Math Club, held in my English classroom. The students who attend regularly don’t just come for the extra credit. They come because they love math. They come because they love hearing the teachers on my hallway debate the best way to solve an old AMC problem about the area of Farmer Bob’s land. We teachers are the Helena Aquarium...
...emphasis on the importance of quality teachers in the American countryside is not meant to be self-aggrandizing. It is meant to underscore the unique ability of motivated and intelligent classroom leaders to single-handedly transform students living among nothing but poverty...
...followed him before eventually leaving. October 107:35 p.m.—Officers responded to a report of an assault at Aldrich Hall. The reporting party stated that they approached a group of individuals to advise them that they would have to leave the classroom in which they were. An individual then pushed another to force the reporting party out of the room. Another individual arrived and tried to reinforce the message of the reporting party, but was also pushed.October 119:32 a.m.—HUPD officers observed an individual blocking the flow of traffic...