Dana Lawit began teaching at the Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School in Brooklyn in 2007. A licensed special education teacher, she won the Gaynor McCown Excellence in Teaching Award in 2010. She is beginning a graduate program at New York University in Education Leadership, and blogs about what goes on in her classroom.
Dana Lawit appears in the following:
Rules Are Made to Be Broken, and Fixed
Monday, October 17, 2011
A teacher tries to find a new way to make class rules more effective, and settles on creating new ways to "make it right" when students break them (which, being human, they inevitably do).
Teaching With One Eye Open
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
A special education teacher entering her fifth year at a Brooklyn school says she has tried to tune out all the noise of education politics. But not this year. 'If I know it's importa...
