Donate Now Thanksgiving break gives me enough time and space to finally sit back and reflect on my life for the past 13 weeks. It’s amazing to me that I’ve only been in my classroom for 13 weeks. Surely it must have been more like 13 lifetimes. But no. The Day Planner does not lie.…

Donate Now On Thursday we had the Sponsor a Teacher event in downtown San Francisco. Basically, all the really rich people who paid Teach for America a lot of money came to a really nice building and hung out with really good food and beverages. I wore my super nice clothes to school that day…

Since I teach Open Court Reading, every morning we do Daily Oral Language (also known as blending, or sounding out words). One of the words on our board this week is hoe (of the garden variety). I was drawing a picture of a hoe on the board in an attempt to explain what it is.…