Today, educators across the country are awakening to a new era of uncertainty, fear, and suffering. In times of crisis and change we each ha

We all deal with disappointment in our lives. It’s a common human experience. There are times that the disappointment is minor such as, not having milk for your cereal or your favorite restaurant doesn’t have a table open for the next two hours. Though the everyday type of disappointments can throw a person off their game, the disappointment quickly dissipates as a new solution or different option arises. Then there are the larger disappointments in life, like not getting the

Teaching is hard work, but it’s so much harder when there is a lack of love and compassion for the people you interact with in your classroo

It’s been a week since the mass shooting in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida. I wish this was the first time all of us felt the confusion and deep sadness that comes after a mass shooting, but we know exactly the script after each mass shooting. We hear calls for prayer, outrage on social media, long speeches from politicians, shock, unbearable aches in our hearts, moments of silence in our morning school announcements, flags at half mast, an additional acti

One of the fears my students have as they begin their careers as educators is occupational burnout and not being able to keep up with the daily demands of the profession. This is a legitimate concern. Every teacher I’ve encountered has horror stories and even some “battle” scars from their first year teaching. It’s almost a competition on who had the worst first year experience, and we wear those scars with pride because we survived the first year. Let’s be honest the first y