A Teacher's Life

     No matter who you ask, 2020 was a year that brought challenges. No matter the occupation or home location, many of us endured the stress and the many challenges of 2020. Did somebody say global pandemic?      As an educator, the Coronavirus impacted my life personally and professionally. At the tail end of my spring break this past March is when I received the news via email that my school would be closed due to the pandemic and we would begin teaching from home in less than a week. The email contained a lot of fluff, a lot of uncertainties and at the end of the email we were informed that when we return from break, we would have two days to come up with a plan for each of our classes and create expectations for what learning from home would look like. Teaching from home with little to no preparation? Fine! I learned at the start of my career that I had to be flexible as changes with education, students, standards, etc., would often happen and with lit...

Unless you've been living under a rock you know that pride month is celebrated the entire month of June but then some cities and countries will extend it before and/or after the month. The pride of individuals doesn't begin and finish when the month of June falls upon us. But it is the time when many members of the LGBTQIA+ community feel most comfortable expressing their identities. I could have you sit here and have you read all about the history of pride month but that's not what this blog is about. Don't get me wrong, as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, I am a big advocate; however, my overall focus of the blog is to share my struggles and triumphs as an educator who also happens to be gay. It's been over seven months since my last post and it's mainly because I felt that I needed to find my footings again. I was being questioned of the sincerity and truthfulness of what I was saying which got brought to the attention of all sorts of higher-ups at th...