Tag: educator
-
We Don’t Make Them Here
An entirely hypothetical account of something that absolutely never happened. Probably. There are certain things in education that simply cannot be explained. Why students insist on running when repeatedly instructed to walk. Why a perfectly functional trash can becomes invisible the moment a student finishes a bag of chips. Why a child who cannot remember…
-
Oh, God… Not That Kid!
There are burdens that come with being a career educator. You carry a lot of kids with you. Not literally, of course. Although after enough years in education, your back probably hurts enough that it feels like you have. You carry their stories. Their struggles. Their successes. Their bad decisions. The ones you worried about.…
-
Day One. Again. For the 27th Time.
Tomorrow will be my 27th first day of school. Twenty-seven. At some point, you stop counting years and start counting first days survived. I am not a classroom teacher. I am an administrator. More specifically, I am the Dean of Students. Which is an interesting title. It sounds academic. Distinguished. Perhaps even scholarly. In reality,…