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Nayeli Brito’s Journey to Room 913
The Many Voices of Grit. True Stories, Real Educators, Serious Inspiration. A pleasant childhood in a small town in Southern Mexico was cut short for Nayeli when tragedy struck. The cartel’s activities in her town were increasing. Her father, a hardworking family man, was targeted and kidnapped for ransom. He escaped and somehow made it…
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My Story of WHY I am a Teacher
(This blog appeared In BookCampPD as a guest contribution.) I do not come from a long line of teachers. I don’t even come from a long line of educated people. My mother was the first person in my family to earn a college degree and I am the first to earn a Master’s Degree in…
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My Grandmother on the Value of Education & Believing in Students
(An excerpt from the book that I am writing about her life.) “My only regret in life is not having gone to college but I haven’t done so bad with only an elementary school education.” “In the 6th grade my grades allowed me to graduate but I had not finished a project that was required.…
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Four Ways that Student Leaders Transform School Safety (As seen in DisruptEd TV Magazine)
When we discuss school safety at best we discuss measures to improve mental health services, fund more School Resource Officers and at worst find ourselves mired in debates about gun control that do not have a foreseeable outcome. We consider increased police, infrastructural changes, even teachers carrying guns. We are looking at school safety without…
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The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
Nicole Biscotti, M.Ed. 