Living a Balanced Life
Twenty years. Sometimes I have to sit with that number for a minute. I’ve spent twenty years in classrooms—planning lessons, rearranging desks, analyzing data, attending meetings, answering emails, creating activities, solving problems and loving a whole lot of children who have passed through my door. And somehow, after all this time, I still enjoy teaching. […]
Let’s talk about something no one likes to admit. You can be really good at classroom management…and still hit a stretch where all you see is the nonsense. The calling out.The wandering.The silly noises.The “watch this” energy. And suddenly you feel like you’re spending your whole day correcting instead of teaching. If that’s you right […]
This year, something felt… off. Not wrong. Not bad. Just different.Like I was moving through my days on autopilot, checking every box, following every pacing guide, and saying words that didn’t feel like my own. For the first time in a long time, I wasn’t teaching the way I know I teach best.I was teaching from […]
