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Richard Curci, Principal, Everett Middle School: I've been in education thirty five years. I began as a high school teacher, but I've taught every grade level. I've worked at San Francisco State teaching graduate students, I've worked with the National Science Foundation consulting with their systemic grants both urban and rural. I've done a non-profit in Los Angeles, called the Achievement Council, and then I became a principal, and I've been a principal now for thirteen years, probably one of the most challenging jobs I've had in my thirty five year career.
[Everett Middle School is] one of the most challenging schools in this district no matter how you measure it, they come to us low performing, we have three years to try and turn that around. I'm happy to say that last year we raised the API forty points, and it was the highest increase of any middle school in this district, so we're proud of that. We are nowhere near where we need to be, but we keep working at it. Our theme this year is getting better at getting better.
I began my career at Eastside High School in Pattison, New Jersey, and there was this program called TM. I was a first year teacher. Talk about a stressful school, Pattison Eastside High School was probably one of the toughest schools in the nation -- they made the movie "Lean on Me" because of the conditions at that school. I led a teacher walk-out that brought the administration in, which at that point was Joe Clark with the bat and the bull horn, so TM seemed like a good thing at the time. So that's when I began to meditate. However, I stopped meditating for many years until I came to Everett Middle School. The staff said, "We would like to involve this program called Quiet Time. It involves Transcendental Mediation". I told them I was ecstatic.
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