Last year, my boss (@taylortiffn0826) sent Ms. Douglas (@najaelliott) and I a large file that contained some progressive discipline documents.  There were presentations, statistics, flow maps, research, etc., and to make things short, she said, “You guys look at this and see what we can do with it.”  That was it.  No specifics on what to…

I can remember this time of the year when I was in the classroom.  It was one filled with mixed emotions.  I was panicking because I wanted to cover a certain amount of material before our state test. I was excited because my eighth graders were almost in high school.  I was tired because of the…