Would You Fire A High School Coach Mid-Season? If you haven’t read about the Red Jacket High School Indians post-season run this year without their head coach – let me catch you up. Head Coach Rich Miles was fired by the superintendent of the school district after a …...
Teammates with a 14 year old Having been a teacher for the last 9 years, I have had plenty of opportunities to witness a multitude of 14 year olds become better people, teammates, athletes, friends and students. It is such an impressionable age for growth and …...
Lessons of a Blowout So far this basketball season, my team has been truly fortunate in our first two games – winning by considerable margins and doing so by playing the type of basketball we want to play: tough deny defense, help-side defense, pushing … Continue...
As India Approaches By Jon Metzgar As my journey to India approaches, thoughts of excitement and fear are appearing my head. As I have never been in a developing country before, I really don’t know what to expect and I still don’t know what I … Continue reading...
Having been a teacher for the last 9 years, I have had plenty of opportunities to witness a multitude of 14 year olds become better people, teammates, athletes, friends and students. It is such an impressionable age for growth and peer influence that those who...
If you haven’t read about the Red Jacket High School Indians post-season run this year without their head coach – let me catch you up. Head Coach Rich Miles was fired by the superintendent of the school district after a parent complained about the one-game suspension...
173 Entries out of Hundreds of Millions YES (Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study) Abroad student Hannah Heyworth won a national competition in India on creative writing celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens. Her poem, attached below, is amazing....
Visiting Teach For India By Maggie Brown (@MagsOnWags) The eager anticipation began to rise rapidly among our group of foreign travelers as the rickety school bus climbed through the bumpy dirt roads smushed between rows of cracked concrete storefronts, woven straw...
By Maggie Brown (@MagsOnWags) The eager anticipation began to rise rapidly among our group of foreign travelers as the rickety school bus climbed through the bumpy dirt roads smushed between rows of cracked concrete storefronts, woven straw homes, and mounds of piling...
Service Learning in India By Maggie Brown (@MagsOnWags) Their feet are bare and their clothes are tattered, And yet they show up at Crossover like nothing is the matter. As four o’clock passes the gym fills up as the children gather, And laughter fills the room …...
Remembering What I Remember By Maggie Brown The ultimate fault in memory lies within the reality of its inevitable decline. As time flies by with the velocity of a traveling train, the mind contorts what could once be recalled as indisputable fact into a … Continue...
As I have continued to delve into the idea of heroism and truth this week, I was reminded by a colleague about a poem I have often referred back to a various times since my freshman year of college (it was neither 5 nor 25 years ago) – Desiderata (Latin: “desired...
I wanted to share with everyone the short chapel talk I gave to my school on June 6 – the last day of exams. It was well received and so it made sense to share it with everyone in the Crossover family. ****** With today being the last “official” school day of the...
“I Wish I Had Spent More Time Last Week Playing XBox” I wanted to share with everyone the short chapel talk I gave to my school on June 6 – the last day of exams. It was well received and so it made sense to share it with everyone in the … Continue reading...
“I Wish I Had Spent More Time Last Week Playing XBox” I wanted to share with everyone the short chapel talk I gave to my school on June 6 – the last day of exams. It was well received and so it made sense to share it with everyone in the … Continue reading...
By George Baldini By George Baldini As the summer days fly by and our trip to India that once seemed so far away is now just around the corner, I’m not going to lie: I’ve started to become a little nervous, but anxious as well. I’ve never experienced something like...
A Little Nervous, A Little Anxious By George Baldini As the summer days fly by and our trip to India that once seemed so far away is now just around the corner, I’m not going to lie: I’ve started to become a little nervous, but anxious … Continue reading...
A Little Nervous, A Little Anxious By George Baldini As the summer days fly by and our trip to India that once seemed so far away is now just around the corner, I’m not going to lie: I’ve started to become a little nervous, but anxious … Continue reading...
The Mind Game By: Kaustubh Garimella. Kaustubh is a sophomore at Northwestern University and has previously volunteered in India helping students learn basketball. Basketball is just as much a mental exercise as it is physical one. Coaches often talk about basketball...
The Mind Game By: Kaustubh Garimella. Kaustubh is a sophomore at Northwestern University and has previously volunteered in India helping students learn basketball. Basketball is just as much a mental exercise as it is physical one. Coaches often talk about basketball...
