An Introduction

So.

When I originally agreed to be NCAE's first, first-year teacher blogger this year, I imagined spending some of the spare moments during my planning period, pouring wisdom out into cyberspace for my fellow first-year colleagues.

I can already hear your snickers.

Here we are, diving into the third week of the school year, and I am just now able to steal some time away to begin writing. By able, I of course mean that I am procrastinating; progress reports go out tomorrow, and I have not yet finished setting up my grade book in NCWISE. Stop. I still hear you snickering.

In any case, I thought that I should at least take a moment to introduce myself to all those who'll be reading my reflections for the rest of the month.

I am a recent graduate of Wake Forest's Secondary Education Program, and I currently teach Algebra at an NC school that shall remain nameless. Before that, I was an undergraduate at Hampton University, and before that, doing whatever it was to my teachers that require, karmaicly , the stress of this year. To my students, I'm "that crazy math teacher that loves quotes and poems and drama and stuff."

To you, I promise not to be too preachy. To sound like as if you all are the ones struggling through, while my days are filled with movie moments. For the English teachers who are cringing as they read, I promise to pay closer attention to all of the rules of grammar that I am currently breaking, and I promise to not talk...too much...about math.

And that is all for today; I've got papers to grade.
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Quote of the Day
~Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets."
~Michael Korda