Posts tagged faith
I Quit My Job Last Year and Here's What Happened

It’s been nearly a year since I quit my teaching job and society has hated me for it.

Ok - maybe hate is a little too harsh a word to use, but needless to say, society has rejected the act. The naysayers - well, let’s just say they have outnumbered the supporters. Why is this?

Well, for starters, I guess what I did was uncomfortable. Believe me, it was for me. For others? I guess it made them uncomfortable too.


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3 Ways I’m Planning for a Simplified School Year

The busy school year is approaching and here’s three ways I’m planning for a more simplified year.

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This I Vow: Seeking My Teacher Truth in 2018

Thus, my word of the year is not some great, magnificent English vocabulary word that I want to study, write in my notebook, and post on my bathroom mirror for daily reminding, but instead it is a way of life -- a phrase that I want to remember, and carry in my heart as I encounter 2018 with messy first-year teacher meltdowns, lesson plans, comprehension questions, and early morning coffee on the way to work.

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