Rachel Singh
Rachel Singh is a Boston native who attended elementary school in Newton through Boston’s METCO program, but graduated from Boston Latin Academy in 2006. She graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Social Studies. Through the university’s student-run non-profit, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), she continues to tutor prisoners in the Suffolk County House of Corrections. Also through PBHA, Rachel worked as a counselor and director for an academic summer camp and after-school program for the youth of the Academy and New Academy Homes and the Orchard Gardens housing developments in Roxbury.
Rachel’s academic and public service work in college inspired her to become a teacher.
Inspiration to teach:
Our kids deserve better than what our society is giving them. I want to be part of a movement that provides a free and rigorous education in critical thinking and democracy to all children, regardless of their race, class, gender, native language or ability. What a radical idea!
About BTR:
A community of intelligent, talented, motivated and conscientious people who are committed to making our world more just.
Favorite Thing in the World To Do:
Discovering new varieties of veggie burgers and eating them!
Random thought:
From my reading for tonight’s homework: “The ideal of a linguistic democracy, in which the speech of every citizen is regarded with equal respect by all others, is perhaps the most unrealistic of all social ideas. Speech is one of the most effective instruments in existence for maintaining a given social order.” (Christian in Penalosa, 1980, p. 183)
Recently by Rachel
RSS Feed9.02.11 - Home Visits
At Young Achievers, kindergarten and first grade teachers are required to visit the homes of their incoming students. I remember home visits last year, when I was so new to everything—BTR and Young Achievers and teaching. I admired the practice, but I worried about… [more]
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4.01.11 - The Path to Prison
A dear friend from college just posted this article on Facebook. Lest we delude ourselves about how far our society has come, the headline informs us that there are currently more black men in the prison system than were enslaved 160 years… [more]
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3.21.11 - Building and Breaking Bonds
One of the major tenets of our behavior management class is that all students need to feel the three Cs in their classrooms: capable, connected, and contributing. Behavior management is fundamentally about prevention, and students will not behave disruptively if they feel like valued… [more]
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3.07.11 - Intentions and Experience
I believe that if I am to be a person with integrity, my actions must reflect my beliefs. So if I believe that every child in my classroom matters and that it is my responsibility to help each of them succeed, then I need… [more]
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1.25.11 - More on Discipline
One of my housemates works at an elite private elementary school in Boston and a few months ago, she was frustrated that her students were acting up and she did not know how to manage them. I asked her about the discipline structure at… [more]
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