I'm exhausted, but it's a good exhausted. It's the feeling of knowing I have put in a full day's work. Before, when there was no endpoint...

Now that the winds have shifted, we'll all grab our umbrellas and float on over to our schools. It took the better part of a day to...

Last winter our school division was buried under a heap of snow. Then the school division staff was buried under a heap of make-up time....

The other day I was telling a co-worker about my decision to leave work everyday at 3:00. She responded, "Oh, good; you have a family."...

"I wanna go home NOW!! I don't like school!!" Over and over, the kindergartener's shrieking protests echoed through the halls drowning...

It's Saturday morning and I'm surveying my weekend with awe and wonder. I'm all prepped for the first week of school. Didn't bring...

This essay has come up a few times in conversations around the zero-overtime concept, so I thought it might warrant a reposting here. It...

My blank walls are taunting me. Every year I stress over how to utilize the visual space in my room. I so admire my colleagues who can...

Monday morning. I pull up my Outlook calendar and scan the week ahead. Meeting tomorrow, Open House Thursday... Open House?! That’s at...

Flipping the calendar from July to August feels like staring down a freight train while standing on the track. September is coming and...

I have already failed. I knew it would be difficult. I'm going against the tide of dedicated teachers doing their darndest everyday. I'm...