In my new role as special education teacher in a BSC setting, my mind is on mental illness a great deal. All the time. Every day. OK, it’s becoming consuming. I began my teaching career in a Behavior Support Classroom, not unlike my current room. I’m no stranger to fights, blue language, demographic slurs, and […]
I don’t have biological children, so my students are my kids. It’s always been that way. They are fiercely mine when I have them as current students, and they will still be my kids long after they’ve left me. I love them, am frustrated by them, despise them, cry for them, cry with them, and […]
I live in an area that is quite impoverished. Most of the students in my school are on ‘free and reduced lunch’ and we send food bags home to a few families on the weekends so the kids have something to eat. Poverty’s not pretty. Someone once told me that there’s no shame in being […]
Wow. What a morning. Yes, I know it’s only 10:30, but it’s already been that kind of morning. The classroom teacher, my GenEd co-teacher, is out today so I spent part of the morning getting her stuff set up. No biggie. I got her day together, I got my day together, I got my one […]
