After another breathlessly chaotic day substitute teaching in a new class, I slumped into the worn office chair loitering bedraggedly behind the teacher desk and poked under piles of papers and half-sticking...
Though this blog is now mostly dedicated to chronicling my stories and advice from substitute teaching and motherhood, my roots reach all the way back to classroom teaching. If we pan back...
One of the hardest parts of leaving teaching after five years was telling my favorite students I wouldn't be coming back. I had just "looped" with most of the class from third...
"Being a long-term substitute is a scam." -Reddit user. The job of a long-term substitute is never easy. These adventurous, and often naive, people can get gobsmacked with an avalanche of classroom...