In my recent post, “Confessions of a Schadenfraud,” I promised to tell you some stories of my epic failures so far in my new job. A recent Twitter thread reminded me of a struggle that many teachers have – and I admit that I’ve been kind of “judgey” about it in the past. Now … Read more
You know you’ve felt it. I feel it all of the time. I felt it a few hours ago when I read about how Chrissy Tiegen publicly enlightened Kim Kardashian that she’s a bit late in hitching a ride on the Bird Box bus. But I don’t know either one of them, and I’m pretty sure … Read more
My usual bag of tricks has not been extremely successful at my new school, especially in my engineering classes. I didn’t bank on the fact that middle/high schoolers don’t want to appear interested even if they are – and most things that I have to share with them are apparently not even worth sitting around … Read more
Pretend you have worked for the same company for 27 years. You know the company’s procedures and idiosyncracies, the people to contact when you need something done or have a question, and many of the employees. Then you get a job with a new company. You miss half the training because you already scheduled two … Read more