Donate Now Apparently, someone besides my mother reads my blog. Angela, of The Cornerstone Blog and The Cornerstone for Teachers, has featured one of my posts as one of the January 2009 Cornerstone Accolades. This post received the “Best Post on Teacher Accountability Award,” which makes me feel pretty darn good about myself. It’s nice…

Donate Now This week was one of those up and down kind of weeks- the kind where I simultaneously love my job and yet question why in the heck I want to keep doing it. First, two really touching stories. Yesterday, we had International Day in my class. The kids were invited to bring in…

It has been an exhausting, crazy week. I worked all last weekend. I also realized yesterday that I have literally worked at home every single day since coming back from Colorado on January 3. So, I’m not working this weekend. My bag is in the closet. I’m taking some well-deserved freedom. I even saw a…

I finally managed to get my hands on the summer issue of One Day, the Teach for America alumni magazine. (For some reason, they send it to my parents’ house, even though they have my current mailing address.) In this issue, alumni were asked how they would reinvent the profession of teaching (provided, of course,…