Mr. José Vilson is a math teacher, coach, and data analyst for a public middle school in the Inwood/Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, as part of the NYC Department of Education. He is in his 6th year as a teacher, having finished the New York City Teaching Fellows program in 2007. Mr. Vilson graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Syracuse University and a master’s degree in mathematics education from the City College of New York. He served on CTQ's TeacherSolutions 2030 team, co-authoring the book TEACHING 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools… Now and in the Future. Mr. Vilson has worked on creating professional development for his colleagues on topics such as working on goals for the classroom and using the ARIS system, a data management system under the NYC Department of Education. He has spoken at Lincoln Center as part of the NYC Teaching Fellows’ induction ceremonies and writes regularly about education issues mainly at his blog. Mr. Vilson is also a committed poet, web designer and developer, mentor, and blogger for the Education section of The Huffington Post, named one of the top 20 teacher blogs by Scholastic Inc. He can be found at http://thejosevilson.com.
Blog Posts
For those of us in the field of educating young minds, we often find that summer does two things rather well. First, it helps us remember a time when our first names weren't Mister or Miss for the majority of the day and when we didn't have to break out into a vibrant soliloquy whenever the...
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