one | two | three | four | five | six | seveneight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve | thirteen For the last... since I can remember... Valentine's Day has been my favorite holiday. Red and pink, check, yup, love those colors, chocolate, massive check there too! L O V E. The most effective tool for healing and the g[...]
This photo was on June 4, 2019, when I went to support my colleague Brad, author of https://oneeducatorssearchforequity.com as he advocated against sexual harassment and abuse within Bellevue School District. He also raised questions around special education laws and inequities as well. The worst feeling I've experienced in this jou[...]
It happens. That's one of the reasons why I started this blog in the first place... and I know, not all the warm and bubbly vibes going into the start of the school year. Except, maybe you feel like I did going into the 2017 school year-- unheard, fearful, and questioning if going back to an enviro[...]
Teacher trauma is so real. Sometimes when I sit down to write I have to remind myself I'm not a doctor and I don't have a PhD in the stuff I talk about. Meaning by todays standards nothing I say is science or evidence based. If we were able to earn a doctorate degree by overcoming some of life's toughest adversities, my degree would be v[...]
Where I started the 2016-2017 school year and where I was sitting when I got the "check-in" e-mail that changed my life. Angel use to sit in this classroom with me. Sometimes we have to go forward to go backwards. There are also times in our lives when the only way for the gate to our future to open is to lose everything we thought w[...]
Angel is my why. Not the why in why I got started but the why in why I continue. He is the why in why I'm continuing to teach and why I will always speak my truth. It's not only what he would have wanted me to do, if he was still alive, but what I feel I'm meant to do. I am a great teacher. All the hate that was thrown by the central off[...]