…even if you don’t know what you’re doing! Being a teacher is hard. Being a parent is hard. Being an automatic “home-school” parent while trying to figure out the technology and assignments from the teacher is even harder – especially if you are working from home, maybe even still working outside of the home, or…

It’s hard to know what to say during these times, except to share my own thoughts. And to stay true to culturally responsive teaching (because that is my deep help beliefs), I just wanted to throw out a couple of thoughts now, especially when it comes to the new way of learning for students. There…

I’m not sure any of us saw this coming.  We were trucking a long, focused on STAAR or state assessments, and then BAM!  Random virus pandemic and every thing changes.  Everything. So if you were anything like me, you froze for minute, gave yourself a little time to process, and then pivoted. We need to…

If you are a teacher in the south, inevitably you are either on Spring Break, or you are headed to Spring Break next week (YAY!), so I sincerely hope you get the rest and recharge you so desperately need and deserve! But with that being said, if you teach an assessed grade level and subject,…

Re-Engage and Re-Connect Ya’ll – this time of year is STRESSFUL. You are tired.  The students are tired.  You are feeling pressure of the state assessment.  Your students are feeling the pressure.  If your district is like my son’s district and the last 3 I worked for, your students already have a pretty solid understanding…