Imagine this scene, but on a school bus after a day of teaching and learning in the sweltering heat. As exhausted as we were we often found the energy to sing and chant.
As promised here are some more chants, medleys and poems from TFA summer institute:
(by the way m143 was the number of our school during summer student teaching)
Some of these are meant for the kids, others i wrote for our mentors, instructors and each other.
Call and response, or group chants to the tune of “mama, mama”:
We drive so far to teach our class, but with our kids you will not mess.
We backwards plan all day and night, cause we save time and do whats right.
m-1-4-3 we are the best, we mind the gap and all the rest.
Our expectations have much height, for our kids futures we fight! Fight! Fight!
Student oriented mama, mama chants:
We don’t come to class so late, we work smart and graduate!
Working hard we want no rest, we came here to pass the test
CS stands for Curriculum speacialist, she was our teacher, this is a song I wrote for her appreciation day:
CS appreciation song (Billy Joel: we didn’t start the fire)
Sarah sosby from CO, givin us a path to go, back planned, striving hard, making it work.
Teach the babies, pass the test, minor problems, all the rest, we don’t need them we will solve them, we will change our mindset!
We didn’t start the gap, its been widenin for as long as we’ve been,
We didn’t start the gap, but we will invade it and we’re going to fight it.
Sarah, sarah shows us how, doing SRAR and BLOOMS and more, Academic - Impact - Model, plaaning pitfalls. Our plans and goals are met, a feasible, ambitious set, practice matters, vision setting -uuup all night.
expectations with much height, no one’s future will we slight, Biases are blown away, sarah what have you to say?
We didn’t start the gap, its been widenin for as long as we’ve been,
We didn’t start the gap, but we will invade it and we’re going to fight it.
How the hell are we to know? Sarah sosby told us so, check-in, good bye, work around the clock.
Drinking dunkin, get no rest, thinking bout our kids success, 7th grade, 8th grade, time for high school.
Now that we are glad and spent, cause our kids to college went, time for rest, pump my chest, hang out at the board walk.
But one image springs to mind, its our sosby up all night, making posters, making calls, bringing kids to schools halls!
We didn’t start the gap, its been widenin for as long as we’ve been,
Sarah didn’t start the gap, but she’s been here long, so we’re singing her song, her song, song…
Sarah, sarah sosby, she’s our great CS, and with her you don’t mess,
Sarah sarah sosby, her babies are so bright, and for them she does fight.
Sarah sarah sosby, and we’ll take it all in, cause… good… babies… we’ve… been
We didn’t start the gap, its been widenin for as long as we’ve been,
We didn’t start the gap, but we will invade it and we’re going to fight it.
Mountains
Tall and proud
Ancient temples
Where the gods reside
I’ve been there hence and
Long to be there since
That fateful day when on their tops
I stood, breathless, tired, with air too thin
And lungs so hungry, I gazed over the vastness
Of this magic place, where but one thing matters: survival.
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