Donate Now “And all along the Rockies you can feel it in the air, from Telluride to Boulder down below….” It’s true. Nothing beats a white Colorado Christmas. I’m sitting here in my pajamas at my parents’ house, watching the snow peacefully falling. We’ve got about 3-4 inches I’d say, and it’s still coming down.…

Donate Now Tonight, I was reminded that my students are kids and not just representations of the achievement gap. We had the first ever Russo Holiday Program, in which we sang “Deck the Halls” and “Feliz Navidad.” Because the cafeteria was so crowded with parents, the second graders stayed in our classrooms until it was…

Every time I have a spare moment to sit and reflect, I do nothing but marvel at how up and down this really is. I have a mental scale in my head of how things are going. It goes from -10 (I am walking into the principal’s office and quitting today) to 10 (this is…

Today I am taking a sick day. So, at this very moment, instead of scrambling to get the kids out the door to recess, I am laying in bed writing this blog post. It is fabulous. Well, if you consider the stomach flu to be fabulous. I’ve been sick all weekend, but I thought I…