If you’re like me and freaking

Don’t let the fact that you’re under- or even unprepared get you down; the school year starts tomorrow and you’ve already got the first few days planned. You have your syllabus (which you’ve written, scratched, revised, nixed, or overhauled), you have the first two days absolutely planned even though a number of questions have [...]

Countdown to Day One

Summer’s over and it’s time to admit something truly awful: I did nothing to prepare for this school year. Nothing in reading (at least nothing I could read with the students), nothing in research (or, at least nothing that seems as though it would relate to teaching 8th grade English), nothing in paperwork [...]