Other possible titles for this post include: "Gee, I'm glad you noticed my hard work!" and "Complete Identity Crisis...

The past two days at school have kinda sucked.  Let's just say the pressure is on like whoa to get our kiddos ready for state testing, a...

Or, "Why nobody likes a tired, stressed, crabby teacher" I am EXHAUSTED tonight.  And, for the second night in a row, I'm...

The best thing about inheriting a classroom from a veteran teacher is inheriting a lot of stuff left behind. The worst thing about inherit...

Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead, or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sit...

Okay.  I'm hoping to get to bed early tonight, so I'm not going to get into everything that's been going on.  But after last Mon...

I want to quit.  I can't remember any of the reasons I got into teaching anymore and I just don't know if it's worth it.  I just...

I knew when I took this job that it would come with some of the natural challenges involved in teaching in a low-income school.  MIA parents...

this. day. sucked. i cannot even relive it right now...more tomorrow.

How do you do it? How do you make so angry, so frustrated, so stressed? Our argument today happened ten hours ago, yet somehow I'm sit...

This weekend was a continuation of my emotional rollercoaster, I'm afraid to say. Saturday morning as I glanced through the quizzes I g...

It seems I am on a constant emotional rollercoaster when it comes to teaching these days. As I'm looking over the math quizzes my team...

Today afterschool (after a wonderful surprise end-of-the-day visit from my good friend's mom who works in the district!! ), I met with m...