How to Make a Simple Pencil Shirt
When it comes to teacher fashion, what do you think of? Does a wonderfully rustic, handmade pencil shirt fit into that first flurry of ideas? Perhaps there are a range of images...
Substitute Teaching
Okay, I prefer the title part-time teacher nomad. Here I document my adventures, misfortunes and tips on substitute teaching while balancing motherhood and various other life undertakings. Take a look!
Substitute Teaching: Pandemic Edition
When news of the pandemic spread, its effects began to reach into every sector society, schools included. School systems were upended by sudden changes and totally new ways of doing things. Substitute...
Substitute Teaching as a Financial Freedom Lever
There's plenty of talk on the Internet these days about achieving "financial freedom." Forums, YouTube playlists and social media platforms seem to have been set ablaze with discussing this new goal. If...
How to Become a Substitute Teacher for the 2024-2025 School Year
The 2024-2025 school year is now in full swing where I'm from, as well as all over the country. There's something about a new school year. Freshly sharpened pencils, newly printed schedules...
Former Teachers Now Mamas: Try Substitute Teaching
"I just can't find any job that's worth it," my fellow former teacher friend sighed, as she recounted her stop-and-go experiences with numerous dead ends. For former teachers that took time off...
Substitute Teaching for Specials and Electives
Substitute teaching for specials and electives classes can be different and even more chaotic than a regular day, but these interesting courses also carry the potential for more excitement and fun. At...
How to Substitute Teach as a Super Young Adult
Each new substitute teaching assignment brings with it a new day of possibilities. The day starts when a sea of young faces stare at you from their desks, testing the first introductory...
3 Keys for Effectively Teaching All Ages as a Substitute
I’m lucky to be teaching all kinds of different ages of students in various schools. In fact, there’s only one age group I haven’t taught-- and that’s high school. I’ve subbed for...
A Year in Review: Substitute Teaching in 2023-2024
I'm hanging up my substitute teaching hat for the rest of the year, folks. Summer break has officially started for me! The announcement is a little less climactic than, say, the official...
It’s Gonna be May: A Substitute’s Survival Guide to the End of the Year
One might think that nearing the finish line of a long and busy school year would be a smooth-paved path of ease and simplicity. One might think that-- but the complete opposite...
Leaving a Sub Note: Examples and a Free Template
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...
Before Quitting: A Brief History of My Teaching Experience
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...