The Catalytic Triad
Blog URL http://thecatalytictriad.blogspot.com/
Located Santa Cruz, California USA
Tags Science, Education, Progressive Politics, Teaching, Teach For America, Grad School, UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, Social Justice
The Coordination of Science, Education, and Progressive Politics to Catalyze Change
Latest Blog Posts
- BrainPOP and H1N1 Video Clip on Oct 17, 2009 in Science Education
BrainPOP, an educational resource providing animated content, lesson plans, and much more to help educators engage students (and whose motto of "The more you know, the more you know!" always cracks me up for some reason), is offering schools two week...
- Irony on Oct 2, 2009 in Graduate School
All that effort to plan and implement my past lessons with a minimum of talking, and now I'm listening to people speak for hours at a time.At least the labs are more fun!
- I want clarification on "time off" on Sep 26, 2009 in teaching Graduate School
Me: I graduated in 2007 and then taught high school biology and integrated science up until now, what about you?Hypothetical Other Persons: Oh you too? Yeah I took some time off as well before graduate school, and (insert: traveled/relaxed/did...
- Why We are Walking Out on Sep 24, 2009 in Graduate School
The below message is circulating around the UC mailing lists, and it explains why UC staff and students are walking out today (except me, because I can't fail out of graduate school just yet):***On Thursday, September 24, an unprecedented coalition o...
- Grad students and email on Sep 23, 2009 in Graduate School
In response to an email invitation for all grad students to attend "the biggest, baddest, most expensive party the [Graduate Student Association] has ever thrown," flyers were electronically exchanged chronicling the downward spiral and certain demis...
- SC Orientation on Sep 16, 2009 in About Me Graduate School
I'm in a new place called UC Santa Cruz, and after a long day of listening to and reading up on and thinking about everyone-there's research project, I see that there's a long road to travel before I can get all of my mind here, too.
- The Speech that Ended Democracy on Sep 8, 2009 in President Obama Education
Short snippet of Obama's address to students planned for this morning:So today, I want to ask you, what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in t...
