Donate Now October 31. La Dia de los Muertos. The Day of the Dead. Halloween. Every 7 year old’s favorite holiday. And every teacher’s worst nightmare. There’s a veteran teacher at my school who says: “I take every Halloween off. I have a substitute who just loves Halloween. I think she’s crazy, but I don’t…

Donate Now It is really crazy how up and down this job is. I’m obviously in sort of a down cycle right now, feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. But today I had a meeting with my PD that made me feel so much better about everything. She is really supportive and I feel like I can…

This week has been rather crazy for us here in the Bay Area. We administered the CELDT- the California English Language Development Test- on Tuesday and Thursday. My kids who have already mastered English- called “English-Only” or EO- had to go to another teacher’s room while I administered the test. Afterwards, during recess, G comes…