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Tomorrow marks the fifth and last lesson in my unit that I will be teaching in the fifth grade classroom I am pre-student teaching in! My unit involves helping the students prep for their NYS Math Exam that they’ll be taking mid-April! I created a great math packet for the kids, defining very important math [...]

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I feel like I speak of this topic often, but for me it is a constant struggle. Balance.  How do you as either undergrads or current graduate students balance home life with your studies? I am fortunate in that I am currently not working. There are not many students in the one year program that [...]

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Hello readers, I am sitting here writing on March 22nd and can you believe it, it is 78 degrees and sunny.  Who said that Buffalo is ALWAYS freezing? I can’t believe that March is almost over.  As cliché as it sounds, time is really going by so fast. Like usual, this week has been busy [...]

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Many graduating students are gearing up for the job search. After months of researching and applying, some finally land an interview. Now the employer asks you for your Facebook password. What do you do? That is the question on a lot of people’s minds as stories continue to circulate about a man who went in [...]

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I’ll be the first to admit that after having a refreshing week off from my evening classes at Canisius, it was hard to get back into the swing of things.  The fact that two of my three professors are currently in San Francisco for the American Counseling Association’s Conference, therefore two of three classes this [...]

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Hi again everyone, I know that this it has been a little while since I have written, but it has been a crazy past couple of weeks. I finished up my first session on March 10th, right before the start of Spring Break. As with typical 15-week classes, there is always the push to the [...]

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Just kidding. But seriously, Canisius just proved that it’s . . .what would be the word that Professor Charles Sykes would use—jive, bop, rocking?  I don’t know. What I do know is that I went to a free event that Canisius had last night and it was awesome.  They brought in this very talented ethnomusicologist [...]

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How was everyone’s spring break? Hopefully you were able to start classes this week relaxed and recharged. As part of the Doing Business in the European Union course, I went to London, Brussels, and Paris over break. We toured several different businesses in all of the cities and received presentations and lectures from some very [...]

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Hey everyone! I hope that everybody had a great spring break! I know that I did. Coming back was definitely tough but I feel like I’m back in the swing of things. There is less than two months of school before I graduate, so my excitement and nervousness is increasing daily. I have a lot [...]

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and I’ll tell you some of my secrets.   I’m nearing the end of my master’s program at Canisius.  I have six weeks left of student teaching left to do.  I’m not sure what elementary or middle school I will do this at, but I know that my advisor Dr. Tryjankowski and perhaps some of [...]

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