http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/randels/ Jim Randels is co-director of Students at the Center, a New Orleans-based writing project that trains high school students to become writing mentors for peers and to use writing as a way to improve their schools and communities. A former New Orleans teacher of the year, Randels is also on the executive council of the United Teachers of New Orleans (AFT Local 527). Since Hurricane Katrina, he has been living in Clemson, South Carolina. In this blog, he plans to chronicle his efforts to reconstruct the SAC program in absentia and find his way back to New Orleans. This blog is now closed. Copyright 2008 Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:42:36 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The storm’s pushed me to the other side of the classroom door. It’s strange waiting in the office, pressing the visitor’s pass to your shirt, listening to the voice on the other side of the intercom saying, “Please send them... http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/randels/archives/2005/12/students_at_the.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/randels/archives/2005/12/students_at_the.html Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:42:36 -0500 In late August, during the second week of school, Z tapped me on the shoulder right after class and asked me if I’d talk to him outside. Z’s big for his age and probably a couple years older than... http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/randels/archives/2005/11/educating_every.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/randels/archives/2005/11/educating_every.html Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:22:37 -0500 I keep thinking about Ed and Leatrice Roberts. Kalamu, Ashley, Maria, and I spent a couple of Saturdays there this summer. Maria, a rising senior at Douglass High School, sat between the two white-haired elders with dancing eyes and mischievous... http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/randels/archives/2005/11/a_legacy_in_jeo.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/randels/archives/2005/11/a_legacy_in_jeo.html Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:25:08 -0500 “I thought I had walked into Students at the Center (SAC) backwards, with a blindfold over my eyes and a false statement of what SAC really was. But then I turned around and slowly realized this is why I was... http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/randels/archives/2005/10/the_story_circl_1.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/randels/archives/2005/10/the_story_circl_1.html Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:02:35 -0500 Fourteen students, graduates, teachers, and community partners traveled to Clemson University from seven states for a working retreat for the Students at the Center (SAC) program last weekend. You can probably guess at the familiar reunion details: hugs, jokes, inquiries... http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/randels/archives/2005/10/public_schools.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/randels/archives/2005/10/public_schools.html Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:40:19 -0500 “Start with what you know to learn what you don’t know. Start with where you’re at to get to where you want to go.” That’s the motto we work by in Students at the Center (SAC), the school/community-based writing program... http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/randels/archives/2005/10/starting_with_w.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/randels/archives/2005/10/starting_with_w.html Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:26:28 -0500