5/25 - The Last Lesson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4IA-Q4W5m0 It's my last 'lesson' with you as middle school students. I impart the need for love and why...
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Jan 27, 20206 min read
The Next Great Mayhaps
We all have a dream. It is that thing we all wish for, desire, and stop in wonder every so often to imagine us doing that one thing. We...
Jan 26, 20206 min read
The End of Everything
Teaching is a complicated mess of ideologues, pedagogues, and demagogues. Across this great country are a panoply of public, private,...
Jan 2, 20202 min read
Back on the Bike with a Vengeance
I've been spending some time reflecting back on the last six years (!) that have passed since January 2014 (post here) marked my return...
Jan 1, 20206 min read
2019 Wasn't That Bad, Right?
In the theme of closing out the year, I've taken up a unintentional tradition since 2014 - writing a blog post to mark the end of the...
Sep 10, 20194 min read
Once Upon a September
For those of us who were alive or conscious enough to witness it - there is a day in September in which we will pause in our...
Sep 1, 20195 min read
What I Wish
What I wish to say to the teaching world as a whole is that we have lots of work to do. From being open and honest about the texts we...
May 23, 20194 min read
Let Me Tell You
What a year. What an experience. I started this job in the opening days of August 2018 as a new teacher fresh out of college at the age...
Mar 26, 20197 min read
Why It Matters To Me
I started off this year with 6th graders. It is my first year teaching. Some would suggest I had lost my mind. Others would say I threw...
Mar 23, 20194 min read
Beware The One Direction
Oh my giddy aunt. I think I've had it. I'm done. I quit. I resign, effective immediately. I cannot take it anymore. What's that you...
Dec 31, 20188 min read
The End and The Begin
How do you measure a year? In the now cult classic musical Rent, they measure a year in song and it's a song I start singing as the days...
Dec 10, 20184 min read
You Will Hit a Wall
It’s December. Two weeks to go until winter break. As a new teacher, you need to be ready for this moment. Because in this moment, you’re...
Oct 16, 20185 min read
61 Days
There's plenty of markers I've made a note of in my head as my first year of teaching has hurtled along at several times the speed of...
Sep 5, 20184 min read
When @thelivbits became a mentor text in my classroom
There are moments as a teacher when you wonder if the crazy idea that pounced on you as you rolled out of bed that morning - if that...
Sep 4, 20184 min read
It's been two weeks
4 years and change. Endless hours of homework, essay writing, field experience hours, stress filled days of student teaching, and the...
Jul 24, 20183 min read
Am I Ready?
Am I ready? It’s the question I’ve been asking as the countdown to that ephemeral first day of classes ticks closer and closer. It’s a...
Jun 16, 20184 min read
Get Back On The Bike!
I have loved riding bikes since I was a little kid in Aloha, OR shredding the dust in my one gear BMX bike. I remember the Christmas...
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