You could call May the month of young adult literature (mostly just because I was assigning my students a bunch of books I’d never read before, which just eats away at my soul until I check them all out myself). This month is set to include literature much more geared to adults, but I will …
Tips for Surviving your First Year of Teaching {Part Two}
Here’s a continuation of the list I started last week of 39 tips to help you get through your first year of teaching (one for each week of the school year): 14. One of the best ways to praise your students is to contact their parents, either through an email, letter, or phone call. Of …
Like Sardines to St. George
This is how we looked on the first leg of our road trip down to St. George. If you look carefully at this visual evidence, I think you’ll understand why we had to have someone else let us out of the vehicle when we arrived at our destination. But now that we’ve finally arrived …
Skunk Hair
Well, here you go: some before/after shots of my new haircut/color that my dad affectionately dubbed “skunk hair” because of the blonde panels I had put in underneath. And I somehow magically look a lot tanner in the “after” pictures, even though I swear I’ve had no major sun exposure lately or faked it through makeup. …