I tend to live inside of my own head. I think deeply, create plans, innovate, reflect, respond, and have entire conversations inside my own head. I very rarely share my ideas and thoughts outside of my own lesson plans. I do tend to overshare with my own husband, who is a middle school PE teacher currently reassigned to teach 7th grade Science and History during Covid teaching. I've been a middle school science teacher for 19 years, he's been an emergency and reluctant science teacher for 5 months....so he really just nods his head and finds any excuse to leave the conversation as soon as possible, which I can understand. This upcoming year, 2021, I dedicate myself to sharing more. I dedicate myself to writing, creating, publishing. This blog and website will be my little space to share all of the thoughts swirling around in my head. Therefore it is guaranteed to be messy, jump from subject to subject, be overly obsessed with science education, teaching, learning, pedagogy, an
I have been told by a past Superintendent that I tend to "go rogue" and not follow by "the rules". In my own opinion I would say that I tend to push boundaries that need to be pushed (maybe also set those boundaries on fire and dance through them). I was recently selected as a finalist for Kern County Teacher of the Year, which means that I have the opportunity to apply to be the California Teacher of the Year, and if selected, could even be considered to be the National Teacher of the Year. It would be an absolute lie to say that I am not interested, invested, and hopeful of a win, but I may have just ruined my chance. I just can't help it. One of the essay questions asks about a "platform" that you would champion if selected as the National Teacher of the Year. Here is what I wrote: National Teacher of the Year The term “platform” can be construed as a directive, and I refuse to contribute to any directives towards teachers. We are already i