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Regretting accepting another position before the year has even started
Regretting accepting another position before the year has even started
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Technically I haven’t resigned my old job, and I could go back. I wanted to move out of state, got interviewed and hired, and I’m in the new town right now, 900 miles away, to do some HR stuff, and I hate the town. It’s too quiet, there’s nothing going on here, and half the housing is dilapidated and trashed. I can’t find an apartment and any house rentals are rent-to-own and beyond shitty. Like, even the pictures suggest they should be condemned. The job pays like 10k less too.

Back home, I’m living rent-free in my parents’ home (mine and my brother’s home I guess, parents are both deceased) but my brother kinda needs it more than I do and was planning on moving in with his family. So even if I stay, I need to move but I have three cats and it’s hard to find a place here too. I also have to resign my current job in the next couple of days or risk a ding on my license.

I don’t want to regret not moving for the adventure, but I don’t see myself liking it here, and at least back home I know where stuff is and how to avoid the bad neighborhoods. I don’t want to stay at home and tuck my tail between my legs as a failure either.


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Gave my students a free write with no rules and no grade. Best lesson I've had all year
Gave my students a free write with no rules and no grade. Best lesson I've had all year
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Two years in and I still have days where nothing is clicking. I gave up on my planned lesson one day and just told my students to write whatever they wanted for 20 minutes. No topic, no rubric, nothing.

The room was completely silent. Kids who never participate were writing the whole time. One student who barely turns anything in filled two pages.

After I read through them I felt like I finally knew my students.

Has anyone else had a lesson accidentally work out better than anything you actually planned?


“Heck yeah” for 7th graders
“Heck yeah” for 7th graders
General Discussion

Teaching summer school, rising 7th graders this summer and I want to set a positive classroom tone early. I want to have some sort of callback where when a student gets something right, takes an academic risk, etc. they get appreciated by their peers. Class sizes are small so I think it would work out. My first thought was just “can I get a HECK YEAH?!” And then everyone in the class would be like HECK YEAH!!! as a way of supporting/encouraging the student. Ofc wouldn’t be using it ALL the time but I want a way for students to celebrate breakthrough/aha moments.

But I kind of don’t like it because 1) not sure it’s fully appropriate?? 2) not super original

What other things might I use?