I've been told to confess that it's going well.
That's a whole different kind of pressure. If it's going well, then better is...well...even better.
Early in the year I was chanting the mantra, "Everything is not this moment."
Now I find myself wishing I could really be present in all of the moments that are happening in my room.
I learned on Tuesday, during New Teacher Induction, that pain is relative and irrelative at the same time. Relative to the guy I met with 36 kids in a room smaller than mine, 30% of whom don't want to work, I've got it really good. Relative to the really good classrooms, I'm underwater.
“You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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