Hitting Pause and adjusting

We have hit a time of the year where everything seems to be happening. Preparation for AP testing, finals, graduation, and plans for summer work. It can be a lot to handle. Here is a tip to help you when the tornado of stuff happens.

Teaching Contentious Topics & Civil Discourse

The way you approach the contentious topic matters. In this post, I discuss best practices and resources to help you!

The Content Dragon

Originally written: March 7, 2019 (while I was in the classroom. I’ve left the original wording to help teachers) Updated: March 15, 2022 Check out the podcast link To start, my class is a semester long. This semester, I have 17 less instructional hours than I did from last semester. I am grappling with field […]

The one question to ask yourself when it’s all too much

Check out the podcast episode! I have spoken at great lengths about not comparing yourself to others, but I have noticed it happening more and more as the pandemic/crisis teaching continues and teachers are burnt out. Teachers are struggling as their plates get fuller and support wains. Although I only taught for a quarter of the pandemic, […]

Tips for Dealing with Overwhelm as an Educator

Education is overwhelming. Often, we are drinking from a fire hose of information, lesson, new policies, student data, and everything else. Many educators find themselves drained and feeling like they are unable to get everything done. Over my many years in education, and most recently after a mandatory quarantine for our child, I found myself […]

Reframing Extra Credit

“Can I do extra credit to raise my grade?” I hated this question so much as a teacher. It required me to do more work and sometimes felt like it wasn’t a good practice. For a few years, I offered no extra credit because I didn’t have the capacity to grade anymore than I already […]