Donate Now So, I’m back in KC, ready to roll.  I am in my classroom (where the temp is at least 95 degrees, gotta love those radiators…) and wondering where the break went…  I know today is going to be pretty busy, but I wanted to reflect about the break.  It took forever to get…

Donate Now Well, just to update people, I arrived Xmas day in New England.  The plan was to leave the 23rd (after school), drive as late as I could, then get up early the 24th and arrive that night.  Instead, it rained all day on Tuesday, so the roads were ICY…  I saw two trucks…

Hellow to one and all!  It is the night of the 22nd, and I am frantically packing, cleaning, and doing whatever else needs to be done before leaving one’s apartment for an extended stay…  Tomorrow, I’ll teach the normal day, change into some comy clothes, and proceed to drive through a hellish storm that apparently…

So this week was a tough one, in more ways than one.  First off, it was the last full week before xmas break, and that means that my students were wayyy too excited about the fact that they were nearing break…  That meant that I had some behavior issues.  Also, there was the consequences of…

Well, its sunday night, and the snow is falling here in KC.  I love teaching, but I kinda hope that we don’t have school tomorrow.  Its not that I don’t want to teach, but my experience last week with a day that ought to have been cancelled was that I had almost no kids and the…

Well, today in class, I had my first epic brawl.  Not going to go into too many details, but lets just say that two students got into it pretty badly, and I was on the phone for backup about three seconds in.  Its funny, you almost develop a sixth sense with these things.  You can…

So, back at it once again.  I am writing this in the few minutes I have while my class is in art.  I need to go make some copies in a minute, then drop off some things in the office and get my students.  I just wanted to reflect a little bit on Thanksgiving.  I really…

So, today I finally know what I am going to be doing for Thanksgiving.  I was a little worried that I couldn’t make it home for turkey day.  That means I’ll miss the best and worst of the day with my family.  No great food, no family, no relaxing and catching up.  But, it also…

So today, one of my students found a loaded gun on school grounds…  This a mere three days after we found out a gang broke into the school…  Not gonna lie, this stuff doesn’t happen in Maine.  That being said, I was so proud to hear that all the TFA teachers are going to be…

So here I am, sitting in my (very hot) classroom, drinking a diet sam’s cola and writing a blog entry on teaching.  Wow, sad picture, yet I am oddly satisfied.  It’s been a few months since I started teaching, and I have to say that I like this job a lot.  I have done a…