22 Jan 2013
Earlier this month, Indiana parent Krysten Moon saw 2009 WW Teaching Fellow David Johnson on a local TV show. Here’s what she had to say: I’m a mom on winter break in central Indiana, watching a [local] television program … with my teenagers. It is a discussion by teachers of their goals, disappointments, hopes, but [...]
17 Dec 2012
Teaching Fellow Sheila Pritchett describes what it was like to have veteran teachers mentor her during her year of clinical placement. That’s what the WW Teaching Fellowship calls student teaching, but it’s student teaching on steroids–for a full year, with expert mentors all the way. Sheila, who now teaches freshman bio and biomedical enrichment classes [...]
20 Aug 2012
Not long ago, someone following the WW Teaching Fellowship on Facebook posted this question to our wall: “Any suggestions to a potential applicant? Really looking for a positive career change from being a corporate scientist.” Every year the opening of the WW Teaching Fellows competition —and yes, the application is now open—inspires hundreds of phone [...]
10 Aug 2012
Talk about world-class. While the 2012 Summer Olympics have shown the world some amazing swimmers, the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships have their own world-class swimmer: Melissa Karjala. On July 27, Melissa, who’s a 2011 W.K. Kellogg Foundation-Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellow, helped set a new world record for a two-way crossing of the English Channel [...]
30 Jul 2012
When you work hard to recruit outstanding new candidates to teach math and science in high-need schools, you do find some amazing people: fighter pilots, dolphin trainers, transportation engineers, and expert geneticists; brand-new grads who have tutored peers and coached kids while maintaining killer GPAs and experienced R&D scientists with stacks of publications and patents; [...]