Category Archives: Teaching

15 Signs It’s the Last Month of School

Your lesson plans all say “Work on project? Or something?” Every single glue stick is empty. No one’s even calling the copier repairman anymore, and people have started storing snacks in the paper trays. Every day is a jeans day. No one really gave permission, it just happened. The things you pack for lunch haveContinue reading “15 Signs It’s the Last Month of School”

Underneath

I spent the weekend grading my students’ journals, and it made me want to post this poem, which was published in Encore: Prize Poems of the NFSPS in 2015. Underneath I straightened the mirror a couple of times,      so I have OCD, then got distracted by a dog,      so you added ADD. I washed my handsContinue reading “Underneath”