Hello! My name is Jesse and I am a music teacher with a background in creative approaches. I’ve chosen three of Costa’s Habits of Mind to summarize myself as a teacher and also my approach to learning. Hopefully these will paint an accurate portrait of what it might be like to study with me. Firstly, is the Habit of Listening […]

Dear <Name and Title of your Host Teacher/Co-Teacher/Teacher Friend/Principal/>, This summer, I participated in a professional learning experience with LUTE-STE(A)M at CUNY Lehman College. I learned a lot about frameworks of learning which promote computational thinking, student-driven success, and multimodal literacy. There was a lot to think about and to consider how to apply in the music classroom, and in […]

Physical Presence and Gesture Raheem is a 12-year old, (presumably) African-American student from upper Manhattan. As I was his substitute teacher, I knew very little about his family life. I had heard that he lives with his mother and father, the latter whom I believe is not his birth father. Raheem has occasionally mentioned staying with his grandmother. He also […]

Hello and good afternoon. My profile picture is of a dinosaur playing drums. I chose this because I play drums and I was feeling a bit dinosaur-y today. I really like the word “dinosaur-y” because it expresses to the exact degree of specificity and generality what I would like to share about my state of mind at the moment! Generally, […]