It is no secret that I believe time in the classroom is a teacher's greatest asset. As a first year teacher, I was not at all prepared for the fine art of parent-teacher communication. I thought I was. After all, I had a beautiful website that I spent hours creating. I had all of my lesson plans posted and attempted to get each of my rubrics online for my students and Continue Reading
Reading the summer and summer reading…(TTT)
Ahh...the time is upon us teachers. The most blessed of all times of year: summertime. Eight to ten weeks of summer sun and fun. The Carringtons kicked off this summer with three days of pool time and friends. Here is a little snapshot from the weekend.Just a couple of girls with their favorite boys (and yes...they match)As I read the future of the summer, it looks very Continue Reading
How different life may have been…
I may not have ever heard your voice. You wouldn't have ever given me my nighttime bottle or rocked me to sleep. Who else could've given me strong baby abs without your baby sit-ups?Sure; instead of waiting a few days later for Christmas presents, we might have opened them that morning. The living room would've been filled with torn wrapping paper, but inherently empty.Instead of Continue Reading
Should we give college players a quarter back?
"All of the mistakes (the young) make are in the direction of excess...""People who are older...are stingy; for one of the necessitites is money and at the same time they know from experience that it is difficult to acquire and easy to lose."-Aristotle, On Rhetoric Book 2Rawr.I often joke with my students that had centuries and sexual preferences not separated us, Aristotle would've been my man. Continue Reading
Why men can’t afford to teach…(TTT)
I want to preface this particular article by admitting that I love my job. I love the 180 days that I am in the classroom more than I should. I love my students and my co-workers and the fact that every day I get to make a difference. I am not a teacher that pretends not to separate myself from my profession during the summertime, either. I think every professional should have a Continue Reading
Educational Acronyms are Gratuitous (TTT)
Jefferson famously remarked that the only two certainties in life: death and taxes.I would add to this list that, without question, there will be a new educational initiative with a clever acronym each year for the rest of time. In fact, check out Greene County's cheat sheet of commonly used acronyms. For those of you keeping count, that's ten pages of educational acronyms...and I'm Continue Reading
Two-Cent Teacher Tuesdays
This morning has been peaceful at the Carringtons. After crying for an hour at 1 a.m. (and me refusing to feed him that early), Bennett slept until 5:30. Like most mothers of newborns, you have a moment of panic followed by a moment of celebration. My little boy is getting close to sleeping through the night on his own. I couldn't be more ready for a night of blissful eight hours Continue Reading