I have teacher survivor guilt. I retired after 35 years as a public school teacher two years ago. Now my friends on the front lines are talking about the effect of the ICE raids in the Central Valley on their students. I should be there (I’m grateful not to be there). God help us. Again.

Love this time of year for fluency work with Reader’s Theater. I have a small group of 4/5th working on a simple script we’ve created from a chapter in Holes. They’re engaged! #readingteacher #edusky

Post election I expect a huge homeschooling increase. Please teach your kids to read! There are great programs for homeschool families. Check out Logic of English by Eide and All About Reading! Both evidence-based and parent-friendly. #homeschool #edusky

Well, this gets it exactly right, doesn’t it?

I loved teaching young kids for decades but eventually being in a classroom wasn’t the right fit. Now I teach kids to read online as a certified Orton Gillingham tutor. I’ve fallen in love with this job! Maybe you aren’t done with teaching, maybe you’re just done with classroom teaching. #edusky

Parents not reading to their children is not the cause of the literacy crisis. The number of schools not teaching explicit phonics is what leads to the fourth grade crash, where kids who previously seemed able to read suddenly cannot decode multisyllabic words. #scienceofreading

A friend of my daughter said they want to be a math teacher and the panic I felt. Please Lord, no.
And that’s how a teacher who LOVED teaching pre-Covid feels about it now.