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...
If you're planning on this spring being your last semester in the classroom, first: Go you! (I know it's not easy to leave this love/hate career) Come up with a strategy for...
It's the blog's birthday! That's right-- Chocolate for the Teach has dug little roots down on this spot on the web for a whole rotation of earth around the sun. And just...
If anyone is creating her own path, it's Shauntavia Johnson. She started out teaching math and has built up a full-time income through tutoring and the sales of her crafts. Shauntavia is...
"Nice try-- I was born at night, but not last night," I explain coyly to a student trying to pull a fast one on me. How, you ask, are you a substitute...
Welcome! Maybe you're here to get more behind-the-scenes info on fan favorite Gaspare from Netflix's "The Trust." I had the opportunity to ask him how he balances it all: teaching, standup and...
Right now? In our current state of education and its expectations for teachers? Teaching isn't even a single human-friendly job. Here's why, my friends: Misconceptions while picking a profession I always knew...
Growing up, I assumed teaching was a family-friendly career choice. Educating young minds in the classroom seemed like a natural bridge to instructing and raising youngsters of my own-- but is it...
I have left teaching not once but twice, so let that serve as a testament to my authority on this topic. (Never thought I'd get to brag about the decision that to...
You might not think of it now, willing the minutes to crawl at a less glacial pace at the end of a long school day at the end of a long school...
The move out of teaching starts to get super real when you need to heft your entire classroom library into boxes. And when you are faced with decisions like if you should...
Teachers leave the field for a variety of reasons-- it's rarely a single factor that motivates them to hand in their badge and (if they worked at a fancy school) their campus-issued...