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A Year in Quarantine
I’m not the type of person who rings in the new year with champagne at a party. We typically stay home and watch the ball drop before going straight to bed. I’m also not the type of person who starts off a new year saying, “this is going to be…
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The Hardest Year
My teaching career has been far from easy. Teaching itself isn’t an easy job, but if you add in all of the job changes and unforeseen troubles in each position, I completely understand why so many teachers burn out by year five. My first year of teaching was in Georgia,…
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Goals for 2021
As we get further into the new year, I wanted to make some goals for myself–as most people do. However, this year I wanted to set goals that will be more attainable. I want to look back at this post in December and be proud of myself for actually following…
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10 Popular Medias I Didn’t Experience Until my 20’s
With last Wednesday being my 26th birthday, I decided it would be fun to look back at some of the things I experienced so far in my 20’s. The funny thing is, some of this stuff is media that people experience much sooner. I may have experienced these later than…
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20 Things I Learned in 2020
This year I challenged myself to start learning more and growing myself as a person. In making this website, I learned so much. First, I learned how to make the website, and then I learned more about research and checking sources. With the different things that I researched, I learned…
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My Fifth Teaching Job for the Year
I’ve already written posts about all of my different teaching positions, and how I moved from role to role, but this year has been a hot mess. Not only have I been moved around, but I’ve mentally prepared for having five different roles for the 2020-2021 school year. The Roles…
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Making a Class Site
I feel like I have spent a lot of time talking about teaching lately, but I think it’s really important with how much teaching has changed in the past few months. This is only my fourth year of teaching, but things have changed so rapidly that it has felt like…
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Just Another 2020 Curve-ball
This year has definitely been one for the books–and that’s not really a good thing. So many major events have happened this year, that it’s hard to believe it all happened in just eight months. The major topic of the year is the pandemic. So many things have been happening…
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Teaching During COVID
The Shut Down Back in March, the country seemed to shut down overnight. People were told to stay home for a couple of weeks due to the virus that was sweeping across the United States. Little did we know, two weeks would turn into several months–with no end in sight.…
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Transitioning from Georgia to Ohio
After my first year of teaching, Jeremy and I started the transition from Georgia to Ohio. I wasn’t excited to be moving back to where it’s colder, but I was excited to live in Columbus. The move itself was a lot less stressful than the one from Pennsylvania to Georgia,…
