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作者簡(jiǎn)介： Pearl Arredondo 一名在洛杉磯東區(qū)長(zhǎng)大,，屢次進(jìn)出監(jiān)牢的黑幫頭目之女。曾經(jīng)很多老師認(rèn)為她不守紀(jì)律,，不可救藥,。而現(xiàn)在她自己就是一名老師。她創(chuàng)辦了一所與眾不同的學(xué)校,，和學(xué)生分享她自己的故事,，目的是教育學(xué)生有時(shí)候作業(yè)未必是人生的頭等大事。 So I grew up in East Los Angeles, not even realizing I was poor. My dad was a high-ranking gang member who ran the streets.Everyone knew who I was, so I thought I was a pretty big deal, and I was protected, and even though my dad spent most of my life in and out of jail, I had an amazing mom who was just fiercely independent. She worked at the local high school as a secretary in the dean's office, so she got to see all the kids that got thrown out of class, for whatever reason, who were waiting to bedisciplined. Man, her office was packed. 我在洛杉磯東區(qū)長(zhǎng)大,，從來(lái)沒(méi)意識(shí)到我很窮,。我老爸是街頭黑幫頭目之一。大家都知道我是誰(shuí),， 所以我還真把自己當(dāng)回事了,。我還受到保護(hù)， 盡管我老爸常進(jìn)班房,。 但我有一個(gè)非常了不起的母親,，一名非常獨(dú)立的女性。 她在本地的一間中學(xué)工作,，是學(xué)校主任室的一名秘書(shū),。 所以，她要面對(duì)很多因?yàn)楦鞣N原因被趕出課堂,，準(zhǔn)備接受處罰的孩子們,。她的辦公室總是人滿(mǎn)為患的。 So, see,kids like us, we have a lot of things to deal with outside of school, and sometimes we're just not ready to focus. But that doesn't mean that we can't.It just takes a little bit more. Like, I remember one day I found my dad convulsing, foaming at the mouth, OD-ing on the bathroom floor. Really, do you think that doing my homework that night was at the top of my priority list? Not so much. 象我們這類(lèi)孩子,，要處理許多校外的問(wèn)題,， 有時(shí)我們只是還沒(méi)準(zhǔn)備好集中精神學(xué)習(xí)而已。但這并不意味著我們做不到,。 只不過(guò)我們要比別人多付出一些罷了,。比如說(shuō)，我記得有一天,，我發(fā)現(xiàn)我老爸抽搐,、口吐白沫、 因?yàn)檫^(guò)量吸毒昏死在浴室的地板上,。 說(shuō)真的,，你認(rèn)為在這樣一個(gè)晚上做作業(yè)會(huì)是我要處理的最重要的事嗎？ 當(dāng)然不是,。 But I really needed a support network, a group of people who were going to help me make sure that I wasn't going to be a victim of my own circumstance, that they were going to push me beyond what I even thought I could do. I needed teachers, in the classroom, every day, who were going to say, 'You can move beyond that.' And unfortunately, the local junior high was not going to offer that. It was gang-infested, huge teacher turn over rate. 但我確實(shí)又很需要一個(gè)支持網(wǎng)絡(luò),，一群能幫得了我的人，他們可以保證我不會(huì)成為我生活環(huán)境的犧牲品,，他們會(huì)鞭策我,，讓我超越對(duì)自己的期望。我需要老師,，在教室里,，每一天。他們會(huì)對(duì)我說(shuō)：“你能比現(xiàn)在做得更好的,?！?/strong>但不幸的是，本地的初中無(wú)法滿(mǎn)足我的需要,，當(dāng)?shù)貛团闪至?，老師的更換非常頻繁。 So my mom said, 'You're going on a bus an hour and a half away from where we live every day.' So for the next two years, that's what I did. I took a schoolbus to the fancy side of town. And eventually, I ended up at a school where there was a mixture. There were some people who were really gang-affiliated,and then there were those of us really trying to make it to high school. Well,trying to stay out of trouble was a little unavoidable. You had to survive. You just had to do things sometimes. So there were a lot of teachers who were like, 'She's never going to make it. She has an issue with authority. She's not going to go anywhere.' Some teachers completely wrote me off as a lost cause. 所以,，我媽媽說(shuō)：“你要每天坐一個(gè)半小時(shí)的公交車(chē)” 到另外一間學(xué)校去讀書(shū),。 所以，在隨后的兩年里,，我就這樣去那里讀書(shū)了,。 我每天乘坐校車(chē)到鎮(zhèn)上富裕繁華的地方。最后我來(lái)到這間學(xué)生成分很多樣化的學(xué)校,。學(xué)生當(dāng)中有些人是幫派成員,，而其他的是我們這些 十分努力完成中學(xué)課程的人。 其實(shí),，嘗試從麻煩當(dāng)中脫身是在所難免的,，因?yàn)槟阋钕聛?lái),，有時(shí)候，就免不了做些身不由己的事,。 所以,，也有不少老師曾說(shuō)： “她是讀不到畢業(yè)的，她不接受管教,，她不會(huì)有任何出路的,。” 有些老師甚至認(rèn)定我已經(jīng)不可救藥,。 But then,they were very surprised when I graduated from high school. I was accepted to Pepperdine University, and I came back to the same school that I attended to be a special ED- assistant. 所以,，當(dāng)我高中畢業(yè)時(shí)他們?nèi)俭@呆了。后來(lái)我被Pepperdine大學(xué)錄取了,，畢業(yè)后,，我回到我高中時(shí)的母校當(dāng)了一名特別教育助理。 And then I told them, 'I want to be a teacher.' 后來(lái),，我告訴他們：“我要做一名老師,。” And boy, they were like, 'What? Why? Why would you want to do that?' 他們聽(tīng)到后都很驚訝地問(wèn)我：“什么？”“為什么,？”“你怎么會(huì)想到要當(dāng)老師呢,？” So I began my teaching career at the exact same middle school that I attended, and I really wanted to try to save more kids who were just like me. And so every year, I share my background with my kids, because they need to know that everyone has a story,everyone has a struggle, and everyone needs help along the way. And I am going to be their help along the way. 可我就這樣開(kāi)始了我的教學(xué)生涯，任教于我的高中母校,。我真的想要挽救更多的有過(guò)和我一樣經(jīng)歷的孩子,。所以每年我都和我的學(xué)生分享我的故事，因?yàn)樗麄冇斜匾烂總€(gè)人都有自己的故事,，每個(gè)人都有過(guò)掙扎,，而每個(gè)人在自己前進(jìn)的道路上都需要?jiǎng)e人拉一把、護(hù)一下,。而我正是那個(gè)他們?nèi)松猛旧闲枰业娜恕?/strong> So as a rookie teacher, I created opportunity. I had a kid one day come into my class having been stabbed the night before. 所以,，作為一個(gè)菜鳥(niǎo)老師, 我為他們創(chuàng)造了機(jī)會(huì)。一天,，一名學(xué)生走入我的課堂,，他在前一天晚上被人刺傷了。 I was like, 'You need to go to a hospital, the school nurse, something.' 我對(duì)他說(shuō)：“你得去醫(yī)院” “或者找學(xué)校的護(hù)士什么的處理一下你的傷” He's like, 'No, Miss, I'm not going. I need to be in class because I need to graduate.'So he knew that I was not going to let him be a victim of his circumstance, but we were going to push forward and keep moving on. And this idea of creating a safe haven for our kids and getting to know exactly what they're going through, getting to know their families -- I wanted that, but I couldn't do it in a school with 1,600 kids, and teachers turning over year after year after year. How do you get to build those relationships? 可他說(shuō)：“我不去,，老師,，我不會(huì)去的。”“我得來(lái)上課,，因?yàn)槲乙欢ㄒ厴I(yè)” 他知道我不會(huì)讓他因?yàn)樽约旱纳瞽h(huán)境而被拖累,，相反，我們要促使他們邁出第一步和繼續(xù)向前進(jìn)。所以,，我很想為這幫孩子營(yíng)造一個(gè)安全的學(xué)習(xí)環(huán)境,，想了解他們所經(jīng)歷的一切，想了解他們的家庭,。 我希望能這樣做,，但是在一間有1600名學(xué)生的學(xué)校里我沒(méi)法關(guān)注到他們每個(gè)人。而且年復(fù)一年,，還有大量的老師離職，你又怎么能建立師生關(guān)系呢,？ So we created a new school. And we created the San Fernando Institute for Applied Media. And we made sure that we were still attached to our school district for funding, for support. But with that, we were going to gain freedom: freedom to hire the teachers that we knew were going to be effective;freedom to control the curriculum so that we're not doing lesson 1.2 on page five, no;and freedom to control a budget,to spend money where it matters, not how a district or a state says you have to do it. We wanted those freedoms. But now, shifting an entire paradigm, it hasn't been an easy journey, nor is it even complete. But we had to do it. Our community deserved a new way of doing things. 所以,，我們創(chuàng)辦了一所新學(xué)校。我們的新校名字是圣費(fèi)爾南多應(yīng)用媒體研究所,。盡管我們?nèi)匀灰獟炜吭谖覀兊膶W(xué)區(qū)以獲得資金和支持,，但是我們享有很大的辦學(xué)自主權(quán)：如聘請(qǐng)教師的自由，我們只聘那些高效的老師,；同時(shí),，我們還擁有課程安排的自由，這樣子我們就不會(huì)受教材的束縛; 我們還可以控制我們的預(yù)算,，將資金花在重要的事情上面,，而不是花在學(xué)區(qū)或州的教育部門(mén)規(guī)定的事情上。我們需要這些自主權(quán),。但此時(shí),，我們已經(jīng)做到了辦學(xué)模式的徹底轉(zhuǎn)變， 其中的過(guò)程是艱辛的,，這一革新目前也并非完善,。 但我們必須要做好這件事。 我們的社區(qū)需要一種新的辦法來(lái)做好這些孩子的教育工作,。 And as the very first pilot middle school in all of Los Angeles Unified School District, you better believe there was some opposition. And it was out of fear -- fear of, well, what if they get it wrong? Yeah, what if we get it wrong? But what if we get it right?And we did. So even though teachers were against it because we employ one-year contracts -- you can't teach, or you don't want to teach, you don't get to beat my school with my kids. 作為洛杉磯聯(lián)合學(xué)區(qū)內(nèi)的第一間試點(diǎn)中學(xué),，自然有人對(duì)我們的辦學(xué)方式提出反對(duì)的意見(jiàn)。反對(duì)是出于某種擔(dān)心--擔(dān)心萬(wàn)一辦不好怎么辦,？對(duì),，如果我們辦不好會(huì)怎么樣呢？但問(wèn)題是,，如果我們辦好了呢,？后來(lái)，我們的確辦得很成功,。所以,，盡管老師們反對(duì)，因?yàn)槲覀冎缓屠蠋熀灦ㄒ荒昶诘墓ぷ骱贤?/span>--如果你教不好,，或者你不想教,，你就不能在我們的學(xué)?；煜氯ァ?/span> So in our third year, how did we do it? Well, we're making school worth coming to every day.We make our kids feel like they matter to us. We make our curriculum rigorous and relevant to them, and they use all the technology that they're used to.Laptops, computers, tablets -- you name it, they have it. Animation, software,moviemaking software, they have it all. And because we connect it to what they're doing — For example, they made public service announcements for the Cancer Society. These were played in the local trolley system. Teaching elements of persuasion, it doesn't get any more real than that. Our state testscores have gone up more than 80 points since we've become our own school. 到了我們辦學(xué)的第三年,，我們的學(xué)校是什么樣子的呢,？我們已經(jīng)使學(xué)校成為了學(xué)生每天都想去的地方了。 我們已經(jīng)讓我們的學(xué)生感覺(jué)到我們?cè)诤跛麄儭?/span> 我們?yōu)樗麄兞可矶ㄖ普n程標(biāo)準(zhǔn),，他們可以使用他們習(xí)慣使用的各種電子產(chǎn)品,。 手提電腦、臺(tái)式機(jī),，平板電腦----你能想得到的,，他們都有。動(dòng)畫(huà),、軟件,、電影制作軟件這些東西他們?nèi)加小Ｎ覀儼堰@些東西和他們的學(xué)習(xí),、生活聯(lián)系在一起--比如說(shuō),，他們會(huì)為癌癥協(xié)會(huì)做一些公益廣告。 這些廣告在有軌電車(chē)系統(tǒng)上播放,。有說(shuō)復(fù)力的教學(xué)當(dāng)中沒(méi)有什么是比這更真更成功的實(shí)踐了,。 我們的州考成績(jī)?cè)诓粩嗌仙壳耙呀?jīng)比我們學(xué)校創(chuàng)辦初期提升了80分,。 But it's taken all stakeholders,working together -- teachers and principals on one-year contracts, working over and above and beyond their contract hours without compensation. And it takes a school board member who is going to lobby for you and say, 'Know, the district is trying to impose this, but you have the freedom to do otherwise.' And it takes an active parent center who is not only there, showing a presence every day,but who is part of our governance, making decisions for their kids, our kids. 但這是各利益相關(guān)者共同努力的結(jié)果-- 如一年工作合同期的老師和校長(zhǎng),，他們的工作時(shí)長(zhǎng)遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超出了比合同中規(guī)定的時(shí)間，而沒(méi)有得到任何額外的補(bǔ)償,。而且,，這還多虧有一名校董 在游說(shuō)過(guò)程中提出一下的表達(dá)， “要知道,，學(xué)區(qū)正準(zhǔn)備推行這個(gè),，但是你們有另辟蹊徑的自由”。 同時(shí),，也受益于一個(gè)活躍的家長(zhǎng)中心,，他們并不僅僅是每天露個(gè)臉而已，而是積極地參與了學(xué)校的治理,，幫他們的孩子-----我們的學(xué)生做決策,。 Because why should our students have to go so far away from where they live? They deserve a quality school in their neighborhood, a school that they can be proud to say they attend, and a school that the community can be proud of as well, and they need teachers to fight for them every day and empower them to move beyond their circumstances. Because it's time that kids like me stop being the exception, and we become the norm. 為什么我們的學(xué)生非得到離家這么遠(yuǎn)的地方上學(xué)呢？他們應(yīng)該擁有一間在自己的社區(qū)里的資質(zhì)好的學(xué)校,，一間他們能引以為豪的學(xué)校,，一間社區(qū)為之驕傲的學(xué)校，而他們也需要每天都在為學(xué)生爭(zhēng)取權(quán)利的老師，鼓勵(lì)他們擺脫目前的困境的老師,。是時(shí)候讓像我這樣的孩子不再是非主流,，而成為主流了。 文中生詞： Gang: 幫派,，團(tuán)伙an organized group of criminals; (of a number of people) form a group or gang Infest: （大批）滋生,，寄生 (of insects or animals) be present (in a place or site) in large numbers, typically so as to cause damage or disease Rookie: 新手，菜鳥(niǎo) a new recruit, esp. in the army or police Paradigm:范例,；詞形變化表a typical example or pattern of something; a model; a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles Pilot: 飛行員, 領(lǐng)航員;駕駛, 領(lǐng)航;試驗(yàn)性質(zhì)的 a person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft; act as a pilot of (an aircraft or ship); doneas an experiment or test before introducing something more widely Stakeholders: 賭款保存人; 利益相關(guān)者 (in gambling) an independent party with whom each of those who make a wager deposits the money or counters wagered; a person with an interest or concern in something, esp. a business
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