i needed them

I drafted this post on March 1st. I kept waiting and waiting for the perfect time to post this because it means a lot to me and it is a vulnerable post. Now, it's March 31st, and so I've got to post it. When we are learning to be teachers, I feel something that is…

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“i tripped”

Yesterday, I introduced a new "check-in" chart, per say, to my students. The chart is called "Above the Line/Below the Line" and it is simply a vertical line with a perpendicular line in the middle. It's basically the right side of a full graph. The idea behind this is for students to be able to…

the life of a writer

I've been thinking a lot about my life as a writer. I think I've even written about this before. Since I've been in my new apartment, I've had room to spread out my things (my notebooks, books, and pens) and make room to actually be creative in my own space. And, I thought that being…

big mistake

Admittedly, I fell off of my routine for posting daily. I ended up getting pretty sick the second half of my Spring Break. As it comes to an end tonight, I figured I would get back into the spirit of school by looking for a short, sweet, light-hearted post from my drafts: Towards the end…

amnestic second chances

I was in the hallway talking with my principal and partner teacher, deciding what to do about a situation that occurred at lunch with one of our students. Therefore, my attention was off of my classroom. After that got taken care of and I was about to re-enter, I had another one of my very…

“teach me”

I always do a board message each day for my students to answer. Today's was "Thoughtful Thursday". Usually, I write, "What is something thoughtful you can do for others today?" However, today I wrote, "What is something thoughtful someone else has done for you this week?" in an effort to focus their attention on what…

a special moment

I had a special moment with a student today. Or, at least it felt special to me. He is one of my kiddos who is challenged by reading and therefore, really does not like it. He's also a talented hockey player. However, this student has put in A LOT of work this year and has…

hello, march

As we start the March Slice of Life 2022, I decided to take a peek back at my slices from last year. Oh, how they made me smile. And yet, how they made me sad, too. It's funny how writing and rereading can do that. So much as changed since March of 2021. To name…

covid chronicles

I feel like Michael Scott in the Dinner Party episode: "When I said that I wanted to have kids, and you said, you wanted me to have a vasectomy, what did I do? And then when you said that you might want to have kids and I wasn't so sure, Who had the vasectomy reversed?…