*Sigh* It's been a busy year. It seems that since September both Erin and I have been going non-stop, but now that school is out we finally have a chance to look back and reflect. After 3 years being PT then FT then PT teaching at a high school, sometimes really teaching sometimes just internet teaching and finally being at two buildings, this was my first year FT at McLoughlin Middle School (Go Pioneers!). I taught two sections of 7th grade Humanities (WA State History)/ Language Arts and one of Intensive Reading (students more than 2 grade levels behind in reading level). It was quite a challenging year and I learned a ton about the curriculum (thanks Erin for sharing all your lessons with me), about building relationships with 7th graders (it's really important), and just dealing with all the other challenges in today's education system. It was great to be part one school community and to be able to embrace everything that goes with that. We had a
Family stories from PDX to BG to MV