Donate Now I was really able to reflect over Thanksgiving break, about how lucky I am to have this opportunity right now. I’ve been a full-fledged teacher for about three months now, and I can’t imagine a job harder than this one. I also can’t imagine what my life would be like if I hadn’t…

Donate Now I wish I could spend several weeks telling the kids all I’d learned from my time interning with an environmental advocacy organization so that they could apply the things from science to the real world (and maybe impress them enough so they’d finish their homework…). Alas, I had half an hour to introduce…

“MISS, who are you voting for?” has been the question plaguing me for the last few weeks. Maintaining the mystery of who I’m voting for (or really who I voted for, today is November 5th) , coupled with the fact that HISD forbids teachers from sharing their political beliefs (or face serious consequences) obviously prevented…