Tales From My Teaching Career

 There’s just no other job like teaching.

(* = personal favorites)

• The Eyeball and the Paper Clip *
• Why I’m Leaving Teaching – March 28, 2012  [Spoiler alert! I came back.]
• Subconscious Healing – June 12, 2012
• Confessions of a Former Teacher #1: I Stole the Baby! – June 25, 2012 *
• Confessions of a Former Teacher #2: Sins of Provision – June 28, 2012
• Last First? – August 27, 2012
• Pointing Out the Owls – March 3, 2013
• Your Parents Don’t Want Me to Know That – January 12, 2014
• Why I’m Grateful for The Spider and the Fly – January 24, 2014 *
• The Thought That Counts – February 6, 2014
• The Greatest Gifts, Part 1 – February 7, 2014
• The Greatest Gifts, Part 2 – February 8, 2014
• The Greatest Gifts, Part 3 – February 10, 2014 *
• Brain On Lockdown: Why Standardized Testing is as Hard on Teachers as It is on Students – March 17, 2014 *
• Two Years Later: Why I Left Teaching, Why I’m Still Gone, and Why It Sometimes Hurts to Talk About It – March 28, 2014
• Confessions of a Former Teacher #3: I am Insidious – May 4, 2014 *
• 11 Reasons for Teachers to Get Excited About Back-to-School – July 31, 2014
• My First Guest Speaking Appearance (And a Few Hilarious Misspellings) – September 21, 2014
• 3 Useful Things I Learned While Teaching Middle School – March 29, 2015
• 10 Things I Learned From Working in an Elementary School Library – June 6, 2015
• Advice From a Teacher: Recommendations for Writing Help – July 12, 2016
• When You’re a Teacher – October 3, 2016 *
• Advice from a Teacher, Part 2: The Spiral – January 23, 2017
• Keeps Typing – March 24, 2017
• Reuniting with The Outsiders – April 12, 2017
• The Eagle Has Ringworm! And Other Things You Don’t Expect to Say at Work – May 2, 2017 *
• Year 15: What I’ve Learned, Where I Am, What I Hope – August 20, 2017
• Underneath – September 10, 2017
• The 10 Stages of Grading – March 20, 2018 *
• 15 Signs It’s the Last Month of School – May 7, 2018
• Forgetting the Pledge of Allegiance and Other Signs of Adult Summer Slide – August 7, 2018
• The First Week of School, In Review* – August 23, 2018 *
• Highlights, Lowlights, and A (Possible) Glimpse into the Future – September 19, 2018
• Christmas Carols for Teachers – December 24, 2019
• A Small, Terrifying Glimpse Into the Subconscious Mind of a Teacher – January 6, 2019
• Mid-Year Crisis – February 26, 2019
• Vision+Voice / Why Poetry Matters – April 30, 2019
• On Fire: A Completely True and Not at All Sarcastic* Look at Differentiation in the Middle School Classroom – August 6, 2019 *
• Why I Love Writing Club – September 16, 2019
• Flattening the Learning Curve: The Challenges of Online Learning – April 2, 2020
• May Memories – June 4, 2020
• A Year Like No Other – June 8, 2021
• 11 Reasons Why You Should Hire a Former Teacher – January 18, 2022 *
• The Future of Education Works for Belly Rubs – May 22, 2022
• My Heart is With You, Teachers – August 15, 2022

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