Understanding Katie
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It’s Good to Take a Break from Yourself
I am not a big music person. Chris is, so I tend to just listen to whatever he is listening to (mostly because he hijacks the music and I have no choice). But…
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Big God. High Peaks.
We are halfway through the first quarter of school and I am happy to report that I am finally hitting my groove at my new school. I’ve gotten to know my students and…
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ClassMax Update
We are one week away from launching ClassMax, a web-based data tracker and classroom management tool for teachers. Over the past six months, we have worked primarily with freelance web developers who we…
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I’ll Bloom Soon, Dammit.
We all survived our first week of school! The kids LOVE their teachers, which is really great to hear. They come home every day bursting to tell us about things that happened in…
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New Year. New School. New Classroom.
Last week, I started working officially at my new school. I had been waiting all summer to meet my new team of teachers and I was so relieved when we finally got to…
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Regretting My Summer
I love teaching and I would do it whether we had summers off or not, but I do love having that time every year with my kids. Summers have always been my favorite…
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Great Beginnings(?)
Yesterday, while Gracie was at Trolls camp, Chris, Bean, and I moved my classroom supplies into my new classroom at my new school. We have had two full van-loads of my classroom materials…
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I Was Mean Girled by My Own Daughter
We are heading to the Keys for a week-long vacation soon, and so I loaded the kids up late last week to head over to Target for the dreaded bathing suit purchase. Can…
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Back to Yale
This past weekend, Chris and I took a quick trip back to Yale. The chair of Chris’s graduate department was retiring after 40 years. Ben Sammler is a giant in the field of…
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Piss Off, Sweetheart
So, I wrote about how Sunday was awesome and I was feeling so much better. But then Monday happened and I thought I was dying again. Oy. I’ve been sick with a cold…
