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Jan 7th, 2008 by Intrepidteacher

My name is Jabiz Raisdana. I have a B.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and an M.A. in TESOL from Teacher’s College, Columbia. I have seven years of teaching experience overseas and have also taught for two years at a high needs high school in New York City. I have taught Language Arts and Humanities, and I can teach Journalism and Global Issues. I am currently the K-6 English as an Additional Language(EAL) coordinator/teacher at Compass International School in Doha, Qatar.

I love teaching and cannot think of any other job that I would rather have. I far more enjoying spending time with young adults than grown ones, and I feel sorry for people who do not have the time to spend with kids.

To learn more about me, please snoop around this blog. Start with my philosophy on education.

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on 23 Jan 2008 at 1:51 am1 Lynn

Jabiz,

What a nice blog! Thanks for posting the link on Classroom 2.0.

-Lynn

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on 06 Feb 2008 at 1:17 am2 Sanford Jones

Dear Jabiz,
Thank you for the welcome letter! I am very excited about joining “the team” and looking forward to getting to know you and all of the teachers. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Sanford Jones. I come from Massachusetts, USA and am currently the band guy at AIS in Israel. I came to the Middle East from Arizona where I was doing a masters degree at U of A in Tucson. My biggest claim to fame though is being a tuba player and conductor for the Broadway show, BLAST! (www.blasttheshow.com). The show, if you are unfamiliar, is like the American marching band version of Riverdance or Stomp.

I am not a blogger personally however, I enjoy reading the adventures of others. I am a huge fan of pictures so if you have any of Doha and/or Qatar in general to share, I am quite willing browse!

Again, thank you for your warm welcome. I look forward to August when we meet in person!

Happy blogging!
Sanford

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on 04 May 2008 at 2:52 am3 soulcradler

Hi Jabiz,

We really do have a lot of books, and therefore interests, in common – I have been lurking on your blogs for a while, and enjoy your reflections. I’m also interested in social justice and activism, buddhism, environmentalism, peace and music. I was glad to see that you’ve recently discovered Michael Franti and Spearhead. We seem to have similar interests in literature/fiction too. I’m glad to have made the connection, and I’ll be adding a few books from your Library Thing list to my Visual Bookshelf.
Nirvana

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on 24 May 2008 at 3:46 pm4 PDonaghy

Hello Jabiz
Nice blog. You might be interested in adding your blog details to the International Edubloggers Directory at http://edubloggerdir.blogspot.com
Patricia

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on 05 Jun 2008 at 3:00 pm5 MJ Farris

Hello Jabiz,
I have a lead on a MS Humanities, probably grade 8, teaching position in Beirut, Lebanon. Email me if you might be interested.

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on 19 Oct 2008 at 10:26 am6 gomathi

Jabiz Raisdana,

I found your name on “Directory of Learning Professionals on Twitter” and wanted to reach out to you. I visited your Twitter page.

My name is Gomathi and I am the Market Development Manager for Englishcafe. We are currently in beta and could use some feedback on the site. Will you help us out by giving us a quick peek or tweet? In the very near future we will be launching a program where Tutors can make money on our site as well. I may circle back to you when that launches.

Can we touch base soon?

Gomathi Shankar
Market Development Manager
Englishcafe
http://www.englishcafe.com

Englishcafe is the premier English learning community for global professionals.

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on 16 Dec 2008 at 1:11 pm7 Lola

hiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!

how are you?? we all miss you!! oooh yeah, hows my/your avocado tree? uummm yeah ok…..

bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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on 14 May 2009 at 3:17 am8 alex

Hi & sorry for contacting you this way. Just couldn’t find your email.

I’ve created a software that assists words memorization & provides a way to exchange dictionaries. You might find it useful. Available at http://wordoholic.com

Thanks for your time,
Alex.

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on 29 Sep 2009 at 2:15 am9 The yeast to activate learning « Brave new world

[...] 28, 2009 by tsheko Jabiz Raisdana, AKA @intrepidteacher, shared an interesting post a few days ago, which he entitled Singing Hearts, [...]
on 16 Oct 2009 at 4:15 am10 The yeast to activate learning

[...] Jabiz Raisdana, AKA @intrepidteacher, shared an interesting post a few days ago, which he entitled Singing Hearts, in which he wrote about how a group of eighth graders in Missouri connected with his 3 year old daughter in Qatar. Like many stories of connections made across time zones, cultures, and age groups this one involved some risk taking, some curiosity, some opened minds, and I hope some learning. [...]