Jeni Crone | Marginalia

My junior year of high school I read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. It was a novella that read like poetry, with subtle..

I moved to Chicago in 2006 for undergrad, but went home to Kentucky during the summer my first three years here, making this my 5th Ch..

Having officially completed our degree requirements, Columbia’s MAT class of 2015 is on the job search—a few are already hired. I regi..

Section 6/6 of my Capstone portfolio will be submitted for edits tonight before I go to sleep—keeping me awake as long as I need to be..

Last Weekend Cohort 22 graduated…symbolically. Our families came into town, we put on caps and gowns and walked across a stage, but ..

My junior year of high school I had AP French first thing in the morning followed by what some of us called the Johnson Double Whammy:..

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Eleven Art Ed, MAT students recently travelled to New Orleans for the National Art Education Association Conve..

In the final few days of my high school student teaching placement my classes were working on self-directed projects and I got a lot o..

None of my students are inherently evil. None of them are “bad” kids, though a lot of them feel like they are always being unfairly ju..

By time this post goes live I will be into my fourth week of Student Teaching. I am the most tired I have ever been (ever), but I am a..