I was a teacher for ten years and it never really felt totally right. For most of my career, I was waiting for it all to click, for the conditions to improve, for the support to be given, for the current I was swimming against to slow. For a time, I thought it did. Teaching… Continue reading For Good
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Brave not Strong
Last week, I was struggling to choose my word of the year. I felt this invisible (non-existent? self-induced?) pressure to decide on my word straight away as it was ALREADY the SECOND day of the year and I hadn't yet chosen the word that I would carry through the year. So, feeling this enormous pressure,… Continue reading Brave not Strong
What next.
At some point last school year - I can't pinpoint it exactly - I decided that I had to make a change to my working life as it was not sustainable as it was. It had been a tough year for a lot of reasons, not all of them to do with my job. Once… Continue reading What next.