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…
layoffs
There is a season — churn, churn, churn
Franklin Roosevelt told us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. You have to wonder how FDR would manage as a teacher, facing another round of possible layoffs as his school district struggles to make its budget work, wondering where he will teach in the fall, what grade, what subjects, what…