I am a public school educator in Franklin, Tennessee. I am a good, old- fashioned English teacher who woke up in a Common Core classroom. I taught for two years after I graduated from Grace College, and when I moved to Tennessee, I stayed at home to raise my own family. I returned to the classroom 13 years later when my youngest daughter went to kindergarten in 2014, and I discovered that education had changed quite a lot. But I also came back with the wisdom that comes from parenting four children and some real-world experience in publishing, marketing and writing. I wanted to be a teacher since I was a little girl, and all the reasons that I love teaching have not changed. I wanted to start this blog to help me remember why I teach and to encourage others not to lose the wonder of being a teacher. After all, we are not creating test-taking, achieving robots; we are creating people who are part of the human race.
The title of the blog comes from a conversation I had with students when I declared that “I teach stuff.” This is what happens when you come from a family of educators: you are always teaching stuff.
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