An Open Letter to Parents, From Your Child’s SPED Teacher
Dear Parents: I am sorry. Today is the hardest part of my school year. Today, I have to sit across…
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Dear Parents: I am sorry. Today is the hardest part of my school year. Today, I have to sit across…
Continue ReadingRecently, an Orlando middle school teacher went viral for posting her goodbye letter to students in dramatic fashion on a…
Continue ReadingOn any given August day, at any given shopping mall or Target, aisles are teeming with mothers and fathers hauling…
Continue ReadingTo my childhood bully, You changed my life. You were my first bully. I’m ashamed of how weak I was…
Continue ReadingIt may still be summer, but back-to-school sales have started surfacing—and today, Target launched one heckuva deal for educators. Now…
Continue ReadingThe familiar song grew louder. Students dressed as antelope, wildebeests, and lions slowly filled the stage. The opening scene enraptured…
Continue ReadingThe year is dwindling down—summer vacation is right around that proverbial corner. What do we do with our kids all…
Continue ReadingTo my students’ parents: This time of year is incredibly exhausting. Between the stresses of testing, planning for the next…
Continue ReadingThe bleachers are a sea of orange shirts. I push my one-year-old back and forth across the crowds of people…
Continue ReadingParents, I know you're probably busy trying to prepare for a piece of your heart to go out into…
Continue Reading“I hate school,” my 15-year-old daughter says as she snuggles up next to me on any given Sunday night. “It…
Continue ReadingFor the Parents of My Students, When you drop your child off to place into my care, I will do…
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