Elbow, knees, dreams

Adequate Yearly Progress

I work at a school that is in trouble. We are not making AYP, and we haven’t been for a while now. I think we’re at the point where we really should be fresh-started, and everyone should be let go and have to interview for their own jobs. Read More...

Tears

There is a boy in my class — we’ll call him David, for reasons which should be clear to fans of David Shannon’s No, David! books — who is always getting into trouble. He is a sweet boy, actually, and I’m always happy to see Read More...

The Little Things, part 3

When I taught preschool at a daycare center, during my first official year of teaching, I had a big classroom with a large area where we could sit on the floor for circle time, in an actual circle. Now, many years later, I am teaching preschool in a public Read More...

The little things, part 2

Perhaps because I really started out teaching in daycare, before I taught kindergarten at that inner-city school, I still obey the rules about licensing and ratios and proper supervision. I never want to have my students out of my sight, because if something Read More...