Tim Rankin
Tim Rankin
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New York City High School English Teacher
Male
37 years old
NEW YORK, New York
United States
Last Login: 6/1/2009
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Tim Rankin's Interests
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| General | I'm into teaching better. | | Music | I play bass, fiddle with pianos, strum guitars, sing a shaky baritone, love Classical, Jazz, Rock, local jammers, great drummers, groove, groove, groove; Miles Davis, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, Hank Williams, Mozart, Beethoven, iTunes radio, Beastie Boys, Afro-Pop... | | Movies | The Godfather, Resevoir Dogs, The Fifth Element, The Thomas Crown Affair, Platoon, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, The Omen, The Breakfast Club, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, Star Wars Episodes I-VII, The Professional, Never Cry Wolf, Fantasia, Rocky, American Graffitti, Contact, Scarface, Gimme Shelter, Drugstore Cowboy, The Verdict, Body Heat, The Color of Money, Good Fellas, Lord of the Rings, Dead Poets Society, El Mariachi, Casablanca, Psycho, The Misfits, High Noon, Stand and Deliver, Driving Miss Daisy, House of a Thousand Corpses, Mean Streets, The Matrix, The N-Word (doc), Be Kind Rewind, The song Remains The Same, The Fountain, | | Television | Not if I can help it... though it's great and I love it. | | Books | Currently teaching "The Diary of Anne Frank", "Maus", "The Outsiders", "Night", Kaffir Boy"; reading Kurt Vonnegut's "Jailbird" and Melville's "Moby Dick"; finished Marcel Proust's "Swann's Way"; former subscriber to The Nation magazine, current subscriber to The New Yorker, American Federation of Teachers Magazine, New York Teacher, and English Journal; favorite books include Jack London's "Call of the Wild"; Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"; "Age of Innocence"; "All the King's Men"; Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titan" and "Breakfast of Champions"; "The Little Prince"; "Wind, Sand and Stars"; "Things Fall Apart"; "Angela's Ashes", George Elliot's "The Mill on the Floss", S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders", Jack Kerouac's "On The Road", The Oxford Very Short Introduction Series, "The Tipping Point", Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"... more to follow... | | Heroes | Kurt Vonnegut, George Lucas, and Mark Twain. |
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Tim Rankin's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking | | Hometown: | Middletown | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Teacher |
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Tim Rankin's Schools
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Cuny Hunter College
New York, NY
Graduated: 2007
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: English
Clubs: Teacher Education Preparation (TEP)
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2002 to 2007 |
University Of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
Graduated: 1995
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: English
Minor: Philosophy
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1991 to 1995 |
Middlesex Community College
Middletown, CT
Graduated: 1991
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Associate's Degree
Major: General Studies
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1989 to 1991 |
Middletown High School
Middletown, CT
Graduated: 1989
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
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1986 to 1989 |
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Tim Rankin's Companies
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JVL Wildcat Academy Charter School
Bronx, New York US
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2007-Present
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About me:
Hi, I'm Mr. Rankin, a progressive thinker and teacher of New York City students in the South Bronx. I am equipping students with the academic tools and intellectual weapons they want and need to fully engage the world outside of school.
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Who I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet other teachers working in New York City schools, or anyone at all who wants to get better at making a meaningful impact on our society.
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