I Became A Teacher When I Knocked on a Trailer Door…

A siege of panic struck me as the car I was…

And So It Began….

When I was in college, I need to decide on a degree and what I wanted to do after college. This decision needed to be made quickly because I was at the end of my sophomore year in college and needed to declare a major before I became a junior. Additionally, I wanted my major to be related to what…

Correctness vs. Truth

Last week I started a new unit on density with my 6th grade science class and began that day’s lesson with the usual…

This is what a TEACHER looks like

There is a pink pin attached to my jewelry tree at home that reads “This is what a FEMINIST looks like.” In college there was a day where almost everyone on campus wore these buttons. The point of this day was that feminists came in all different shapes, sizes, and…

Telling Our Stories

Our Educational Narratives as K-8 Teachers

My First Ah-Ha Moment

I was fresh out of my undergraduate program in psychology when I first experienced the power of an ah-ha moment. After college, I bounced from job to job trying to find a path in life. I worked administration in a hospital, as a veterinary technician assistant, and in elderly care to name…