Developing as a effective educator is a process that takes time, experience, and lots of mistakes and mishaps during the journey. Throughout the teaching career, one will proceed through a continuum, first starting as a novice teacher absorbing every bit of pedagogy they come across, and after many years and many stages along the way, … Continue reading Becoming a Teacher Jedi
Being an educator can be hard. Our days are often filled more with trials than with triumphs, but every now and then, we stumble upon a rare gem of a moment that makes it all worth it...
Gun violence is a problem plaguing or society and even our schools now, causing so much hurt and pain. Real solutions to this issue need to be proposed. Some of the ones we hear coming from our political leaders are comical enough that they need to be featured in a comic strip...
With the interesting weather we've been having, from rain storms, to blizzards, and frigid cold, it seems like students are finding all kinds of reasons to not venture out to school. Maybe we should tell them about the time we had to walk to school uphill, both ways!
Here on the East Coast we have just been walloped with a blizzard that has shut down school for two days! There's so much snow, it's tough to recognize anything, let alone believe that we are actually in the month of March!
Well my friends, we made it to March! (Can you see the light at the end of the tunnel?) To celebrate, here's one of my favorites- The Teachers' Ides (Id's) of March
