It has been an interesting week in Doha. The government Supreme Council has decreed that all schools stay closed until October 4th in an effort to curb the spread of Swine Flu. What makes matters more complicated is that this announcement came on the tail of a weeklong holiday for Eid, so I haven’t seen [...]
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On June 4th, I gave a talk called Life as an Open Book at Qatar Academy for the first ever Tedx event put together by Julie Lindsay.
I spent quite a bit of time planning the talk, but the execution was not exactly what I had in mind. I was plagued by repetition, false starts, and [...]
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I was going to start this post with the line, “I hate to toot my own horn but…” instead I decided to start it with, “To toot my own horn…” Sometimes, the affects of our work comes back in ways we could never imagine, and it is in these waves that we can feel reassured [...]
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Posted in IB, Teaching, recruiting on Oct 24th, 2008 8 Comments »
Trying to break into a high school English department with no experience is hard work. Make that department IB, and you might as well be trying to teach a PhD course on Proust. I understand that the English department is one of the most important components of a school, as it sets the backdrop for [...]
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Posted in recruiting on Oct 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
If you are an administrator and have been sent here after having looked at my résumé and reading my cover letter, please get started by reading the tabs above labeled Philosophy and Recruiting 2.0.
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