Imagine this: Your classroom is well-prepared. Displays are fresh. Desks and tables are exactly where you want them. Your lesson plans are laid out in detail for the next month. It is the first day you will have students in your room and you are ready, or as ready as you can be, because there’s…
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Celebrating the School Cafeteria on National Spaghetti Day
We all have our little traumas in life. For example, I grew up as a brown-bag kid. The first time I forgot my lunch? It was a day that became a painful memory etched deep in my soul. It was a Friday. The pizza wasn’t so much bad per se, as it was simply not…
Thanks at Thanksgiving
From myself and the rest of the editors and employees here at The Mailbox, thanks for… –Cleaning up some sick kid’s vomit when you came to school sick yourself –Staying at school until 9:30 PM for that last parent-teacher conference –Getting to school before 6:00 AM to prepare for a day of overseeing bubble-filling –Being…
Let’s Talk About Lunch
Lunch in the teachers’ dining room at my school was an unpredictable affair. I never knew whether I’d find my fellow teachers talking excitedly about everything or sitting silently in the doldrums of discontent. Of course, there was the food. Nothing much had changed since we were the ones sitting in the cafeteria with our…