When I was in college, someone told me a crazy statistic that I thought was an outright lie. I was told that some crazy amount of teachers burnout and quit the profession within five years. Since I had wanted to be a teacher since I was six years old, I…

This past year has been one for the books. Literally, it will be in history books someday. Last March, the world came to a halt. On March 13, I worked with my coworkers to get materials ready for kids to work from home for two weeks. The plan was to…

This year has been a different year for everyone. People are working from home, staying away from people, and everyone has had to be creative to live life safely during a global pandemic. Several professions are changing how they do things, and no one knows how much will be permanent…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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,…

The days leading up to my first year of teaching were way harder than I had expected them to be, especially since I had fantasized about becoming a teacher since I was six. In just a few months I went from a college student, to a kindergarten teacher, to a…