Dear Milwaukee, Or the state of Wisconsin.  Part of me applauds you for your dedication to ensuring highly qualified teachers are in classrooms.  The $170 I just spent on the Praxis I (in other states, acceptable ACT scores suffice), and the idea that I may have to take out student loans for the first time…

I need to get this off of my chest… If I ruled the world, teachers would be compensated fairly for the work they do. Teachers would be treated as the professionals they are. But…it would be easier to get rid of the bad apples that give the profession a bad name. School funding wouldn’t be…

Got back to school for my final semester last week–taking some AWESOME classes, including graph theory and introductory physics (which each have elements that I can use for teaching math).  Additionally, I’m taking Middle East Politics, doing a capstone on voting theory, and studying NGO activity in Central America after a recent trip to Nicaragua.…

So I learned that as a secondary math teacher, I’m most likely going to be placed in a charter or choice school.  Interesting.  While I’m hoping this will be a more supportive environment for a new teacher, and I know of many outstanding charter schools, part of me feels dis-loyal to the majority of students…

So its been about a month since I learned my life would be uprooted to Milwaukee from Ohio for the next two years. I’ve gone from jumping up-and-down excitement, to a fear so severe I wanted to curl up with a teddy bear, to my current state of anxious anticipation. While Milwaukee was not my…

So you can thank a certain Kat Berger for this new blog. I decided I wanted to begin documenting my journey. I will make no commitments about frequency of posts, but I hope to do it on a semi-regular basis.