The first nightmare.
Anyone who is a fellow teacher will understand "the nightmare." It comes in many forms prior to the start of the school year, succeeding to frighten the newbie teacher out of a carefully, well thought...
View ArticleAbout the boring.
When you teach the same subject all day, material is bound to get a little monotonous. Your voice starts to drone on in your mind, you start questioning whether or not you've already said the thing you...
View ArticleOn Fridays we wear purple.
If you've ever watched the cult classic film Mean Girls, your familiar with the Plastics rule of wearing pink on Wednesdays. What would normally be met with aspersion by normal teens becomes ritual for...
View ArticleTales from the infertile.
Most people would be thrilled to have some time off work on a lazy Friday to take a mid-morning nap. A calm siesta, where one could drift off into a tranquil slumber, if only for a short while. Alas,...
View ArticleThe disservice of lax deadlines.
At the time I was drunk on admiration and paralyzed by the fear of her wrath, so I completely bought into her philosophies and beliefs about education, no matter how arbitrary or well researched they...
View ArticleSuiting up.
Though I've never been a huge football fan, I tried to give an honest attempt at watching Sunday night's playoff competition (okay...in between grading papers, reading, and taking a nap). The 3rd...
View ArticleOprah, can you come to school?
We were watching a video, an excellent documentary, on the Holocaust. The idea was to give students a visual look at survivor's stories, to co-inside with the reading of The Diary of Anne Frank in...
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Don't look a gift potato in the mouth.
In 1999 a vision of the Virgin Mary was reportedly seen in the window of a building in Clearwater, Florida. This wasn't the first "sign" America would see, nor the last.Plagued by indecision, it was...
View ArticleToo bad, so sad, no techie for you.
My school is limited in the available technology hardware we have available, though not from lack of wanting. Our two computer labs are booked for the entire year on the first day of school; teachers...
View ArticleMy negativity blanket.
When I was little I used to carry around a plastic baby doll bottle, the kind where it looks like the milk is emptying when you tip it over. I don't remember this, but family lore shares that I was...
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