Reason For This Blog

After years of teaching multiple grade levels and experience in a few different districts and school settings, I have a very good friend, Nicole Landry, who inspired me to start a blog helping new teachers to stay organized and try to remember the millions of things that teachers are supposed to remember and complete on a daily basis.  My best advice to her: You NEVER get it all done.  Just when you think you have finally finished for the day, you think of a million more things that could be done.  Throw this in with being a wife, mother, etc, and we are FORCED to remember why this is our passion, not our life.  Try to focus on why you love teaching and what brought you to teaching in the first place.  All the other "stuff" WILL get done!   Through this blog, I will give ideas and organizational tips for the classroom.  I will try to provide examples and lesson ideas.  Mostly, I am doing this because I wish someone had shown me all the things that were involved in running my own classroom!