Donate Now Thank you to my friends (35 of them accepted on the facebook event invitation) for organizing a stuff drive. I really can’t put words on a blog to explain how happy it makes me, especially coming home after long days and feeling like Christmas seeing my friends loving me this much. When I…

Donate Now It was decided today, by me, that my kids aren’t going to have a halloween party. They’re allowed to dress down, but i’m going to require them to dress in uniform. We’re going to do REALLY boring work while everyone else has a halloween party. Why, I hear you asking. Why is Ms.…

It was Wednesday when I realized I had been logged off the teach.for.us website, and that I couldn’t remember my password or log-in name. It is now Friday night at midnight, and I just realized that my username is just my… real name. Anyway, all I wanted to say was that this week was much…

Today in class, I reminded (with a bright poster) the class of our big goal of 1 tier of improvement on the benchmark exam in april, along with 10% improvement on our class average every unit test. I then showed them that we made 15% progress with our last test. We clapped for each other…

In a much more un-password protected post, it’s been my classes’ goal since our first math unit test to improve 10% pts every unit. Between unit 1 and unit 2 we improved from 30% to 37% average mastery. Between unit 2 and unit 3, I hear you asking? FIFTEEN PERCENT!!!!!! I was so happy I…

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Well, I officially recognized my problem- I have behavior management issues. It’s not that I didn’t realize this was my issue the whole time. Actually, yesterday was a self-inflicted day of horror, and it ended up being the worst day of the year. I can’t really explain my thinking except that I started the day…

Even on my absolute most miserable days (such as today), i come home feeling motivated. I am unsure how this happens, but it still amazes me and propels me forward. I am so happy to be a teacher, because this job constantly gives me room to test myself and prove it to myself that I…

Yesterday I was going to write something that at the time felt insightful, but today i feel it suits me better just to say that things are going well. I’m not sure if I…didn’t teach anything at all this week, or if I’m just getting used to the idea of what it is to be…

For both myself and my relatively constant fear of sucking at teaching, and for myself and every other Cubs fan. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. -R.W.E.

I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that I find it easier to remain positive about school than to stay positive about the Cubs in the playoffs. This said after I had two girls punch the crap out of each other in the back of my room, 9 kids didn’t…