Timeline

  • 03/01/2008: Receive acceptance letter
  • 03/14/2008: Attend Admit Day
  • 03/20/2008: Have conversation with STEP staffer about working outside school
  • 04/05/2008: Email Rachel about student teaching question
  • 04/06/2008: Rachel responds, asks me to come in for meeting.
  • 04/09/2008: Meeting. I interpret it as Rachel's attempt to convince me to go elsewhere. My accounts, written the same day: Forum account, Letter to Ombudsman
  • 04/10/2008: I speak to Dr. Rasch, ombudsman.
  • 04/15/2008: I accept Stanford's offer (last day possible)
  • 04/16/2008: Rachel sends "potential participation" letter with false description of my behavior.
  • I email my concerns and repudiation to Dr. Rasch.
  • 04/15/2008: I contact a legal blogger and ask for advice. He sends me to FIRE.
  • 04/22/2008: I email that I'm too busy to meet. Rachel emails insistence. Head of Clinical Practice accidentally mails me note that reveals they are strategizing to undo my acceptance.
  • 04/24/2008: I email the misdirected letter to Dr. Rasch.
  • 04/25/2008: I talk to Dr. Rasch the next day. (Account of conversation emailed to Dr. Rasch.)
  • 05/01/2008: I meet with Dr. Rasch and Rachel Lotan. (Account of meeting.)
  • 05/23/2008: FIRE mails letter to Stanford President.
  • 06/05/2008: Stanford responds, confirming for the first time that I will be attending.
  • 06/23/2008: Orientation Begins
  • 06/30/2008: Summer School Student Teaching and Stanford Classes Begin
  • 07/30/2008: Summer School Teaching ends. My assessment is very strong. (no copy)
  • 08/04/2008: Stanford Summer Session Ends. Grades: A, A, A-, Credit.
  • 08/2008: Classroom Management course runs and I turn in plan.
  • 09/03/2008: Sequoia Principal meets with me about my blog. That same day, I meet with Rachel Lotan and Eamonn Callan about my blog. I am reprimanded formally (I never scanned the letter) for having a blog. (Account here, in my email to FIRE.)
  • 09/12/2008: I pull down the blog. Over the next week, I remove all references to Stanford, create a different moniker, and password protect the blog, bring it back up.
  • 10/08/2008: I receive a note from my Classroom Management Instructor saying she was having trouble scoring my CMP. See link for remainder of correspondence.
  • 10/20/2008 (or thereabouts): Rachel is hospitalized for kidney stone problem.
  • 11/17/2008: Rachel and head of clinical practice meet with me about classroom management plan, which turns into much bigger meeting.( Account here)
  • 11/18/2008: As a result of the meeting, I email Dr. Rasch and ask to meet with him. I also notify FIRE.
  • 11/19/2008: My supervisor shocks me by making it clear he hasn't been a big fan. (Account)
  • 11/24/2008: I met with Dr. Rasch, who told me not to worry, but when I got home, I found a letter stating that Rachel Lotan was concerned about my suitability for the practice of teaching.
  • 12/03/2008: I get my assessment from supervisor (account in same link as 11/19 meeting).
  • 12/10/2008: I meet with Eamonn Callan and Rachel Lotan. In addition to discussion of their "concerns", Eamonn Callan brings up my blog, which is now password protected. He demands the password; I tell him I'll check with my advisers and see.
  • 12/11/2008: I write a letter to the secondary STEP cohort, letting them know what has been happening.
  • 12/12/2008: I refuse Dean Callan access to my blog. His response is in the link.
  • 12/16/2008: Rachel Lotan and Eamonn Callan warn me via snail mail that I must meet a laundry list of vague goals and tell me my letter could have had a chilling effect on the students. I don't get the letter until 12/28 (I check email far more frequently than my mailbox.)
  • Fall Session ends. My grades: B, B+, A, A
  • 01/08/2009: Dean Callan emails me a "compromise" in which he accuses me of "serious breaches of confidentiality, copying the principal of my placement school. He demands again on the 18th.
  • 01/16-23/2009: I submit academic and non-academic grievances to Deborah Stipek, dean of the education school.
  • FIRE sends out second letter, protesting treatment over blog and criticism of my letter to cohort.
  • 02/03/2009: I meet with Dean Stipek and agree without reservations to her offered resolution. She emails the agreement the next day.
  • 03/04/2009: I meet with Dean Stipek to learn that my academic grievance has been rejected.
  • 03/27/2009: Winter session ends. Grades: A, A-, B- (the last is Language Policy. Don't get me started.)
  • 06/09/2009: Spring session ends. Grades: A, A-.