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Capturing the peculiar faces of CTEA, one shot at a time. Founded by: Irwin Frimpong This followed by a portrait.

Inspired by the works of Brandon Stanton from Humans of New York, a body of student journalists constructed Humans of CTEA(HOCTEA). Similar to Humans of New York, HOCTEA will feature the peculiar faces that define our diverse culture at CTEA. It’s not always about construction, engineering, and architecture; but instead we wanted to focus on individuals that make up our school as a whole, sharing

their captivating stories and aspirations that they have in life. Founded by: Irwin Frimpong
Run By : Irwin Frimpong & Eisha Butt

06/14/2017

Q. What motivates you? Is there anything that inspired you to become a Spanish teacher?

A. "Yes, specifically the passion that I feel from my culture and the pride that I feel to share with other people especially people of other cultures like New York City, which is so diverse. So, to me that's more like a mission rather than just a job. It's just exchanging ideas and exchanging culture and being able to pass that on to others and learn from others as well."

06/10/2017

The international festival would not have been the same without the beautiful models and talented performers! And let's not forget the FOOD!

05/13/2017

Tell us your story.
“What do you mean, what story? I have too many stories to tell. Okay something that changed my life. Well this changed my life: I had a military training and spent ten years in military service where I was taught that anything you work hard for in life you will accomplish. Later I learned that not everything is in your hands. Sometimes you work hard and still you don't get what you want especially in situations that you cannot handle, for example, when I came to this country with my wife our goals were to to be well educated in the U.S. We would get good jobs and then we would have a family. So we could provide for them. That was the plan. We came to the U.S. and six months after we were going to school, validating our degrees from Colombia and working on our certifications in the university when my wife felt sick so she went to the nurse. She had thought it was a stomach virus but the result was, as she put it, she had two viruses, she was pregnant with twins. So now how were we going to handle this situation?
We had a plan to finish school and get jobs so we eventually could have a family and now my wife was pregnant with twins. Oh lord, two boys. So those are the things that got out of hand. It was a difficult experience but it did change my life because I learned that you have to trust that there is something beyond where you see that can protect you and kind of give you hope. Just knowing that everything is going to be okay when you don't know for sure if it is going to be, that's fate. I learned after that experience that if I were to go back in time I would repeat that same story. So at first it was like, oh this is a mistake but no it wasn’t and it was just in the perfect time. I learned very much through that experience and yeah I would do it again so I guess that's my story.”

05/06/2017

CTEA TAP Nation put together an awesome performance titled "The Color of Us".

04/03/2017

When did you decide that you wanted to become a teacher and what made you know that you wanted to be a teacher?
“ I decided to become a teacher after attending school in Georgia as a sophomore. My teacher, Ms. Williams, comforted us during the time of loss, as two students in our class died in a car accident. She helped us through the loss and told us that even when we experience loss, the world does not care and is not concerned and we have to continue to strive daily. Although I’ve always known this, she was enlightening.”

What do you like about working with kids?

“Children make you think of the world differently. Children help you think, period, as well as love and have more patience in every aspect of life. Children help me see the goodness in the world and that no good deed goes unrewarded.”

03/30/2017

Bradley Philoxy is also another student that attends P.S. 233Q at CTEA. Bradley is 21 years old and loves to play basketball. We asked him why he loved the sport, and here is what he had to say:
“The ball going in the net. Swish. Ankle breaking. Shooting.”

03/28/2017

During Respect for All Week, we had the opportunity to visit P.S 233Q. A lot of you may not know this, but P.S 233Q is another school located within CTEA. This school houses some of the most exceptional students we have ever interviewed, who truly represent the diversity within humanity. Rajendra Kandha was one of the people we talked to. Rajendra is unable to successfully communicate verbally thus has to do so via an electronic app on his ipad, however this did not hinder him from opening up to us. We learned that Rajendra loves to watch tv and some of his favorite tv shows are Deal or No Deal and Wheel of Fortune. He also enjoys cooking class and music class in school. His favorite teacher is Ms. Collins, who helps him everyday in school. We even walked in on her feeding him his lunch right before our interview. Before we left, he wanted to say this:
“I love to laugh and smile.”

03/18/2017

A big thank you to all the CTEA students and staff for making this Respect for all Week truly memorable.

03/13/2017

Thank you all for coming out and spreading the love and positivity to the CTEA community.

03/11/2017

(3/3)
“I want to send a message to every student at CTEA. A few years ago I had a good friend who took his life. He never even told me that he had mental illness. So, I personally knew someone who lost a struggle with mental illness. I want to honor his memory by telling everyone who might be suffering from mental illness that no matter how awful it gets it's never worth it to act on an impulse to escape the pain.
My room, 302, is always open for anyone who's struggling with any kind of depression or bipolarity or mental health issues. Please just come to my room and I have open ears to hear anything you want to share. Whether you have my class or not, I want everyone to feel comfortable that they have someone to vent to or a shoulder to cry on because what my friend did affected me so much, and I would never want any parent or friend or relative to have to go through that.
Especially because there's so much viciousness today because of online bullying where you can say the most awful things to someone anonymously. I never grew up in the current atmosphere where everything is plugged in - when I was young, once you got home from school, a bully couldn’t torment you. Even I was bullied a bit in school but once you got home, that was it - relief.
But today, 24/7 if you're connected to social media, you can’t escape. As bad as it feels now, you should know if you're suffering that you're going to look back one day and laugh at how stupid all of this was and how, the mean things teenagers say, it's all just hot air and it feels real, it feels really hurtful now but just know that teenagers can be very cruel and they don’t even truly mean what they say. These same people will look back at their lives and think back at how awful they were and they will feel guilty, if they have any humanity in them they will regret how they tortured their classmates. But don't ever act on any impulse in a moment of tremendous pain because it's just not worth it, you have your whole life to live ahead of you. Again, you can always stop by Mr. Levine's room because he's always there for people who are suffering from mental illness.”

03/09/2017

(2/3)
“I don't think I have a personal role model in terms of moral character because I like to decide every moral issue for myself by listening to many different opinions. However, for Science Education, my role model is the late Carl Sagan. He's not well known to today’s new generation of students, but he was a really famous scientist and he did some amazing work as a public educator. He brought science to the masses in a captivating way through his timeless TV show Cosmos (broadcast in over 60 countries and seen by over 500 million people) and books. He inspired me to go take up Science Education as a career.
It's funny - you see, most people don't even know that I didn't take Physics in high school. At the time I was either a bit too scared or a bit too lazy, or maybe a bit of both. But during my time in college I was exposed to Carl Sagan and he was a huge reason for my decision to take up Physics. I was inspired by the way he conveyed his love for science - the way he expressed it was really like a beautiful form of poetry that has to be experienced to be believed.”

03/06/2017

(1/3)
“I have always wanted to become a teacher since I was in elementary school. I liked the idea of having my own classroom. I love it so much - learning and sharing what I have learned with other people. I like seeing people’s reactions when you show them something amazing - that the Universe we live in is amazing, and there's so much to discover. There's so much to learn...so much that we still don’t know...and so I like to share that with students. Physics is the most fundamental of the sciences. The Laws of Physics are the rules that the Universe obeys and every other science builds upon Physics, so I believe that once you master the fundamental rules everything else becomes more intelligible and falls into place.”

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