This will be my last post of 2023 because I will not post in between Christmas and New Year's. But it is the end of another year! Time is such a funny thing in that it keeps moving whether or not you want it to. I want to take today and maybe slow down time … Continue reading A Wrap-up of 2023
As the year wraps up to a close, I'm spending time to review and reflect some of the things I've learned this year and lessons I'll take with me to the future. I'll do this more in-depth next week as I wrap up the year in a whole. But I want to take today to … Continue reading Challenge Your Thoughts
This year has and continues to be a lot. There are so many things always going on in my life. Some I talk about, and some I keep to myself. Some take a day and some take almost all year. I've also spent a lot of time this year working on goals. Some of the … Continue reading Projects
Happy Halloween! This is one of my favorite holidays! I recently did a deep dive into the history and origins of Halloween, and I want to share that information because I feel it's mostly unknown. This means it's time for another history lesson! Halloween started as the Celtic new year festival called Samhain (Saw-win) in … Continue reading The History of Halloween
Because I'm a teacher, about 85% of my job is relationships. I need to have good relationships with my students and good relationships with my administration. Thus year has unfolded very differently than I anticipated, some of it good and some of it bad. But a lot of it boils down to the relationships I … Continue reading Building Professional Relationships
As I was looking through some of my posts for something else, I realized I never actually got around to writing about my thesis. I wrote about the other things I learned while writing the thesis. I wanted to take today and give you a history lesson about how baseball came to be one of … Continue reading The History of Baseball
September is Library Card Sign-Up Month. I wanted to take this post today and talk about my thoughts on libraries, especially as a teacher. Public libraries exist all around the world. They are often, if not always, free to use. In the library alone, books are available to check out. Here in America, using the … Continue reading An Educator’s Thoughts on Libraries
It's hard to believe I'm already in week 3 of this new school year. It feels like it's going so fast already. I'm learning about who my students are and creating the relationships with them. They, on the other hand, are beginning to be more comfortable and are testing some of the boundaries and the … Continue reading Stuck in Limbo
I can't believe I've already finished up my second day of my fourth school year! I'm still teaching. I'm in the same room as I was last year, and teaching the same material. I'll admit, last year was rough on me. There were a lot of things that went awry, and I struggled. However, I'm … Continue reading Year Four of Teaching
It's been some time since I've given a history lesson on here. This one I stumbled upon recently while I was in Philadelphia. It's something even I didn't know, and I've been studying history for more than seven years. I'm really excited to share this. A lot of times when we talk about early American … Continue reading The Dissenters of the Constitution
Battle Kim of the Republic 