Recently, I was thinking about how I failed my students. Not because they couldn’t answer 15 out of 20 questions on a test, but because I might have let them down when they needed my understanding and compassion the most. During lunchtime yesterday, I thought about the great number of students who showed up to…
seventh grade
Field Trip Season—Share Your Story and Win!
I was given my first heads-up about our big seventh grade field trip a few days after I started teaching. You may remember those days. You were about to prove that you were the Greatest Teacher Ever. Your classroom looked like the Greatest Classroom Ever. Your plan book would soon win a Pulitzer for Most…
Dr. Strangeteacher
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Be Silly. Sometimes a different teacher needs to show up to your class. She looks like you. She talks like you. She has the same keys to the classroom door and even dresses in the same outfit you‘ve been wearing for three years. But she’s not quite…