Hi everyone. My name is Haruka Mori. This is my second year at Bank Street, and my major is General Elementary Education. I am taking 9 more credits on top of this class this summer, so it's going to be a busy summer!

I am currently a fourth grade teacher at the Allen-Stevenson School. I am a homeroom teacher to 23 boys!

Since everyone has shared something interesting and profound, I will try to do the same. (:
By the time I reached the age of eleven, I had lived in five countries across four continents and had attended thirteen different schools. My father’s job as an international banker required our family to become experts at packing and unpacking. Moving from Japan to Australia to Bahrain, back to Japan, then to the U.S. was a difficult task just in itself. From early on, my parents placed great value in learning and maintaining proficiency in Japanese, along with sense of heritage and culture, while adapting and fitting in comfortably in a foreign land. Like many parents who take their children to foreign countries, they wanted me to experience the ‘best of both worlds,’ which is easier said than done. Each country I lived in, each school I attended brought a new challenge, which I learned to overcome by being flexible and accepting different customs and practices. To this day, my unique childhood plays a significant role in shaping the kind of the person I am, and kind of educator I aspire to be.

I'm looking forward to our online conversations.