I’m going to be a student again!
Although I just graduated from the University of Louisville’s school of education in May, I’m very excited to begin working on my second masters this summer at Bank Street College of Education. The program could not be more perfect for me: 3 summers on site in NYC; 3 […]

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My first year, I’m embarrassed to admit, I was so overwhelmed with the idea of teaching grammar to a group of adolescents who could not even identify the subject and predicate of a sentence, I just didn’t teach grammar at all. I didn’t know where to begin!
The following year, I taught isolated lessons on […]

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I don’t think anyone can really convey the exhaustion that is teaching to those with normal jobs. It’s like love or spiritual epiphany: words do not suffice.
I’m tired.
Today was an especially exhausting day, because ESS started today. ESS (Extended School Services) is an after school program for students struggling in reading and math. […]

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Such a notion is certainly not to be found in teaching.  After that disaster that is delicately referred to as “Ms. Yos’t first year” (with a delicate pat from mentors, colleagues, and administrators), I feel I have come a long way.
 My students have challenged and continue to challenge me to become a person of higher […]

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Last week I heard a man’s commentary on No Child Left Behind on NPR. I wish I had written down his name, but I was driving home from school and didn’t think it would be very safe to scramble for a pen and paper from behind the wheel. The man was responding to […]

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