This question has been haunting me all day. For some reason I had the occasion to tell (an edited version of) this story to my first period class at my previous school one morning. Then, I was again reminded of it as I talked with a student who sometimes calls me mom. Again, the question […]
I was standing in line at the school cafeteria the other day. There was a student in front of me. The cafeteria server was asking the young girl to choose an option. From behind the serving line, I hear a familiar mantra: “this or that, mija”. Mija. Four years of elementary school lunches came rushing […]
This made my day today. Our superintendent gave us each our salary statements in Manila envelopes. Each envelope had a label. Each label has a tag line. She thought of a tag line for each teacher/ employee. We have a small district. I’d guess we sit right at 20 employees total in the entire school […]
I started a new teaching job. This year I’m teaching English, Spanish, and Theatre Arts at a small school. I’m mostly teaching 5th-8th grade, though I do have a specials rotation with 3rd abs 4th grade. Every year I start my classes out basically the same way: students fill out info and goals sheets as […]
Last year, I attended some life changing writing trainings second semester. I get to start this year with all of that learning in mind. The best thing I learned is that I need to write when the students write. I’ve been doing that. We started our writing notebook with quick lists this week. You can […]
