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Dear Mrs. Izzy, I was a teacher, and I know how challenging busy little boys can be. The energy, the…
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Dear Mrs. Izzy, I was a teacher, and I know how challenging busy little boys can be. The energy, the…
Continue Reading"Do you ever regret leaving education?" I send this text to multiple former colleagues. I feel a pain in my…
Continue ReadingDear teachers, I know this time of year is especially crazy for you. The weeks leading up to winter break…
Continue ReadingAs I sit looking at my last days of summer vacation, I've been thinking about the school administrators and leaders…
Continue ReadingMy freshman year of college I was 18 and felt like I had my whole future planned out and set…
Continue ReadingI walked down the hall, past the rows of bright orange lockers. Past the U.S. history classroom and the eighth-grade…
Continue ReadingWhen do we know when it’s time to close a chapter? This question has been circling in my head for…
Continue Reading“Mama, I wish I was in eighth grade,” my sweet first-grader said to me as she sat at the kitchen…
Continue ReadingThis week I have been lucky enough to have the chance (which is rare these days) to chat with two…
Continue ReadingIt’s 11:30 on a Thursday morning, lunchtime in an elementary school. A third-grade teacher circles her classroom, helping her students…
Continue ReadingDear teacher, I see you learning new technology. Spending hours watching training videos, practicing the platform. Frustrated when it doesn't…
Continue ReadingI remember dropping you off at daycare the first time. You were just three months old. I sat in the…
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