Becoming Coco

From First Year Teacher to Best Teacher Ever! How Can it Be Done? So you just started, or are about to start your first teaching job and you want to do everything you can to help your students. You’ve learned how to give assessments and use them to drive instruction, the basics of classroom management, how to teach each subject and differentiate for special needs and individual learning styles, you even learned a variety of activities or organization ideas that you want to implement. How do you synthesize this learning now and put it towards actually teaching? But wait, you don’t just want to do the minimum and rely only on what you have learned in school. No, you want to be a great teacher, the best teacher! You want students to be engaged in every lesson, to have fun learning even traditionally “dull” subjects, to love learning and become lifelong learners! You want your students to understand math concepts, not just memorize algorithms. You want students to use acade...

Truth time: Has anyone ever told you that planning a wedding is one of the most stressful and challenging endeavors you will ever endure? I think supposedly the actual wedding day is cool, but I cannot say from experience. I trust that those who told me their wedding day was magical and great were being truthful. However , it just occurred to me that no one ever warned me how much planning a wedding will consume, disrupt and stress up your life.  Either my friends who got married in the past are way better at managing stress and high volume of tasks than me or they were holding some of it in. I'm going to go with the latter.  I commend you past and future brides for the amount of work you go through and how you gracefully respond to others constant questions about "how is wedding planning going?" You girls are angels.  But it was never my style to be graceful. I have no filter and no shame, so I am told. So just so EVERYONE knows , if you haven't done it yourselves...