Posts for tag: first year teacher

How Mary Poppins Turned on the Light

Posted on August 4, 2016

When you are a first year teacher, you are doing everything you can to survive.  Survive not just the teaching day, but survive: “pop in” administration visits, parent phone calls and emails, new curriculum, managing student behavior, professional development days with new strategies (that need to be implemented immediately), and all of the other tasks that are expected of teachers daily.  I believe every first year teacher has a light bulb moment, this is mine.

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