Mis(s) Education

Welcome to the platform of an educator on a self-proclaimed sabbatical, *attempting* to write a book about the modern American classroom in all of its glory and woe.

I’m glad you’re here!

For the last five years, I have taught in the same high school that I attended. Weird, huh? Sharing an adult beverage with all of my former English teachers is only bizarre the first time, though, so we have that going for us. I started my career in teaching in a tizzy to say the least, and it never ceased. I believe that the mind of a teenager is a whirlwind of beauty and creativity (overshadowed at times by idiotic TikTok references and attempts to dress like people did in the 90’s…) They are wonderful creatures, begging to be asked the hard questions that no one has taken the time to ask them. So they, the students, are most certainly not why I left the classroom to pursue my Master’s in Creative Writing. It was the system, at times the parents, and at other times the administration. I am here to lift the veil on what happens within classrooms across the America and answer the question, “How are teachers really doing?” Welcome!

I want to build the kind of community that champions inquisition and empathy when it comes to education. I will be writing about mostly public school classrooms, as that is my forte, but also private/independent schools as well as charters. These will be full of humor, because children are RIDICULOUS, and compromised of stories from the mouths of educators across the nation. I have interviewed several teachers, for hour stretches, getting their perspective on the state of education today as well as their own mental state. I believe the holistic health of the educator is vital if we have any shot of keeping our education system in America running, and running properly.

Subscribing is free!! I mean I am not naïve enough to think folks would pay for this (yet) so please share and read at your leisure. I hope to post twice a month, because if I’m honest, I have a lot to say. I want feedback from educators about what they would want to see in a book about education itself. The good, the bad, and the ugly!

This is how I feel about you reading this:

Elated. ^That’s elation. Contained, but elation nonetheless.

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