After working as a hall monitor and substitute teacher in New Jersey (primarily the public schools in Trenton) after graduating from college in 1974, Smagorinsky began his teaching career as an English teacher in the Upward Bound/Pilot Enrichment Program under the direction of Larry Hawkins, in Hyde Park on Chicago's South Side, where the University of Chicago is located.
Notable alumni of the Upward Bound program include Oprah Winfrey, John Quiñones, Angela Bassett, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Jose Hernandez, Donna Brazile, Patrick Ewing, Henry Bonilla, and Viola Davis.
Outward Bound | Bound for Glory | Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco | Bound for Glory (film) | Bound for Glory (2013) | Prometheus Bound | Outward Bound (film) | Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood | Brother Where You Bound | Bound Brook, New Jersey | Upward Bound | The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works#Zuckerman Bound 1979-1985 | The Case of Ireland's being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England | Outward Bound USA | Outward Bound Australia | Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Story of Survival at the South Pole | Howrah bound '''Chennai Mail''' hauled by WAP 4 | Honor Bound series | ''Honor Bound'' series | Gilbert–Varshamov bound | East Bound and Down | Deathlands: Homeward Bound | Cramér–Rao bound | "Contractors at Guatanamo Bay recently painted 'Honor Bound.' The full motto "Honor Bound to Defend Freedom" was established during the command of Geoffrey D. Miller | Bousso's holographic bound | Bound for the Floor | Bound for Glory (book) | Bound for Glory (band) | Bound by the Beauty | Bound Brook |