Dear Plate-Spinning Teacher, She’s the one with all the plates spinning right now. Her hands are full. Her body is weary. Her mind is...

Dear Buried Teacher, A pair of eyes, blink. Blink beneath the rubble, Rubble made up of projects with missing pieces Missing pieces that...

Dear Almost Normal Teacher, “Today almost felt normal,” she said. “It was good for my soul.” There was a time not so long ago I wondered...

Dear Humble Teacher, “I’m sorry,” my Spanish teacher pleaded with a quivering chin and tears in her eyes. I can’t remember the boy she...

Dear Traveling Teacher, Mark my word, when that last bell rings signaling summer break, teachers will scatter to the four corners of the...

Dear 4th Grade Teacher, There’s nothing particularly significant about 4th grade that makes a teacher extraordinary. Whether it’s...

Dear Sleeping Teacher, It is late, really, late…too late for any teacher to still be awake. In fact, I might be the only teacher on the...

Dear Immobile Teacher, And now, there’s a gas shortage. This really is the school year that keeps on giving. In case you’ve forgotten,...

Dear Small Teacher, Small teachers come in many shapes and sizes, but the small I am referencing has nothing to do with stature. The...

Dear Appreciative Teacher, To any teacher who has stuck with me through the duration of almost an entire school year of blogs, God bless...

Dear Unmasked Teacher, Am I the only teacher who feels like gradually shedding the mask this week feels a bit like the dream where you...

Dear MUSTN'T Teacher, Nearly every night, my seven-year-old son, Jeremiah, crawls into bed with me, and we read poems from “Where the...

Dear Draper James Teacher, This time last year teachers were relegated to house arrest. I distinctly remember moving from the couch to...

Dear May Teacher, Three little letters: M-A-Y. These letters MAY not seem like much to the average person, but to a teacher, they are a...

Dear Teacher with a Side Hustle, I know a teacher who works at Publix after school, another who sells Scentsy, five hundred who sell...

Dear Teacher with the Notes, She leaves them little notes, here and there. She sprinkles them around like confetti on the top of a...

Dear Teacher at the Copier, It goes without saying that the copy machine is the hub of the school. Need to catch up on some gossip or see...

Dear Teacher with the Big Heart, You know the kind of heart I’m talking about, don’t you? It’s the one that splits wide open when you...

Dear Teacher as Learner, This weekend it stormed. Today it is beautiful. And when I say beautiful, I do not mean beautiful in the trite...

Dear Teacher with a Sub, One day. You’re gone one day, and you come back to a classroom that looks like an alligator wrestled a saber...