Donate Now When I first learned that i was assigned to the Special Ed section of remedial math, I was a little disappointed–or, more accurately, scared.  I have very little experience with Special Education–the modifications, the IEPs, the ARDs, the other acronyms.  Furthermore, I was scared that I wouldn’t be able to reach the students…

Donate Now It’s amazing how different teaching is the second time around.  It’s almost like I know what I’m doing. My classes are structured much differently this year: All 7th graders 3 classes of 20 students or less, for 2 periods at a time I have a co-teacher My students are in my class because…

It’s the first week of school, so I keep running into old students–sweet seventh graders turning into enormous eigth graders!–in the halls, cafeteria, etc.  Today, I ran into my