I saw a district introduce a program where they help students in teacher preparation programs get teaching jobs. I love that but I hope they realize the problem isn’t qualified teachers but retaining teachers. I think there’s more than enough people who’d love to teach but choose a different career or leave teaching due to the awful conditions. Do you agree that it is a There’s a teacher retention problem vs teacher shortage?

Why is it so frowned upon when you hold IEP students accountable? My campus seems to love to enable lazy IEP kids. There’s always an excuse as to why they can’t or don’t need to do things. So of course, when I hold mine accountable and hold them to the same expectations are my regular students, I’m the bad guy. Anyone else notice this too?

I went to college for my education and spent tens of thousands of dollars to become a teacher. And this last weekend I took a really hard science of reading test so that I could continue teaching. But I’m seeing so much support of homeschooling. People think that teachers are bad and indoctrinating children. But if a parent who doesn’t even have a college degree can do my job, what am I even doing? Why did I spend tens of thousands of dollars for this degree if anybody can do my job?

My principal is trying to assign me with extra tasks on the last week of school. I'm honestly super busy with closing everything out for the year but I have a hard time saying no. What's a good way to go about saying no?

How do you stay on top of good habits during the summer? I already find myself staying up way too late since I know I don't have to get up early the next day.