Right before a teacher packs up his clsasroom for the summer, something glorious happens. (Or-- depending how it's celebrated-- a week of lackluster attempts at fanfare comes and goes.) However a school...
It's no myth that teachers often lose their voice during the school year. By October, those tired vocal folds seem to go on strike. That's why I like to use this strategy...
My first year of teaching, nearly a decade ago, wins the award for the most challenging year of my career by a dumpster fire landslide. Though I hold so many special and...
Substitute teaching is a flexible job, which I find translates into refreshingly elastic Augusts each new school year. I get to wave casually at the school buses shuttling by instead of scurrying...
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...
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...
Everything changed the last month of school when I finally decided to leave teaching at the end of the year. I chose to finish out my contract term, but then I'd be...
Even though I was a total ball of nerves every time I was formally observed, my last observation was my best– and dare I say, quite enjoyable. Here’s what I did:
In my last month of teaching before I nonrenewed my contract, I started a small business project with my fourth-graders. How I started teaching my students about business They were an entrepreneurial...
Private tutoring is not only a lucrative side income stream, it can be a great soft landing in your teaching exit-- a way to provide a cushion of funds while you're planning...
I always liked the spring, despite the inevitable schoolwide busyness and the state testing and the heaps of pollen carousing around the atmosphere because it hinted at the best of times for...