In my first year of teaching (even most of my second), every day I stepped into the classroom, I stepped out of my comfort zone. In my third year, I've noticed that I feel pretty comfortable, and the day to day work of being a teacher feels normal. This isn't a bad thing in itself, …
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As prep for my students' Genius Hour projects, I showed them a short TED Talk on trying something new for 30 days. The gist of it is that the speaker sets monthly goals for himself to do something new or novel each day of that month. I've set my own goal of writing three hundred …
"Adversity, how we handle that, determines what comes forward." -Frank Martin (South Carolina Mens Basketball Coach) (This is a series of posts sharing the quote I write on my whiteboard each week. As an English teacher, I feel responsible to point out that, technically, "quote" is a verb, but colloquially, it's generally accepted as …
For me, especially in my first two years teaching, I got so wrapped up in teaching English that I forgot to continue enjoying English for myself. This year I've jump-started my reading and writing practices and rediscovered why I wanted to become an English teacher in the first place. This rediscovery has elevated my passion …
Learning and Teaching in the Modern Age 