I know I suck at reflecting. I tried to remember to come update. This is just silly that I can't find time in my day to do this. Anyway, I went to the NJEA convention for the first time this year. It was interesting. My head is spinning from the amount of stuff I got out of it. Brain is still processing everything. Maybe I'll come back later when I ( Read more... )

it seems I forgot to update yesterday. I spent a long time talking with my mom about a lot of the things that I would love to write down here. About how my administration doesn't seem to understand how early childhood education works. About how I really feel that I'm failing these kids. About how I'm expecting too much from them ( Read more... )

During the first days of professional development that we had this year, we had this speaker come in and talk with us about making sure we are sensitive to the students' Latino backgrounds and to really take into consideration what it means to have to hide a part of your identity in order to attend school. I've somewhat had experience with an ( Read more... )

1. Update on Fridays and/or Sundays about how my teaching is going (and life in general) and to find at least one happy thing to share ( Read more... )

I suck at regular updating.

And at happy thoughts for the week.

Can't wait to see Brian tomorrow. That is all.

Andddd already I'm slacking on weekly entries. Go me. Well I'm hoping to reflect on Friday nights and/or Sunday nights from now on so hopefully things will work out ( Read more... )

I'm leaving this near the top so I don't forget ( Read more... )

This past week has been kind of crazy for me. It started with not wanting to buckle down and get my stuff ready for school and then finding out I couldn't even get into my classroom until today which made me pretty apathetic to doing work and getting anything finished. I feel like everything is half finished, or just started, and nothing will be ( Read more... )

Welcome back to my life. My mind has been going in five million directions the past few days so I'm not even sure where to start. That's part of my problem right now. I can barely get started on my to-do list since I got home from vacation. I've stalled out again and I'm unsure why. I know I want some rest, some time to really sit and do nothing. ( Read more... )

I need a space where I can reflect on life and really get my thoughts out. That's what this journal is for, but I tend to think I don't have enough time to sit down and think it through because actually putting my thoughts into words is such a daunting task for me. Even talking it out sometimes is too much. But I think this will be a good exercise ( Read more... )