When my daughter began preschool I vowed to never be “that parent” who tells the teacher what and how to teach. Or to be “that parent” that demands to meet with the principal on a whim to tell him/her how
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Losing Hope
This year presents many challenges for educators. Budget cuts have left our district asking teachers to do more with less. Teachers are covering two and three duties each day. Some teachers barely have time to eat their lunch because their
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Long Overdue
Here’s to the best of the best: talent that we don’t deserve, but that our children do.
Read MoreWhat Do Teachers and Jersey Shore Have in Common?
One exhausted night at the end of May 2011, I got sucked into a Jersey Shore marathon and began to wonder if teachers could “GTL” like the overly-tanned and overly-paid reality show MTV characters. According to the oh-so-charming Mike “The
Read MoreThat’s Not My Job!
Four different people said that to me on Friday when I returned to my classroom after summer break and it got me thinking, "What exactly is my job?" When I came into my classroom after the break, I knew that
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