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I’m NOT an English Teacher
I taught school for twenty years. I’m not an English teacher, but then it was never my goal to be. For fourteen of my 20 years I had 5th and 6th graders. They are my favorite age group to work with in the classroom. Two of the years I had Kindergarten. They are not my favorite. Three of the years I taught math, science, and technology to middle schoolers and enjoyed that very much. And for one year I taught science and technology to high school students who had been asked to leave the regular classroom due to a variety of issues. They were challenging but rewarding students to teach.
Even though I taught in English and language arts was a part of the curriculum, I’m not an English teacher.
When I came online in 2006 I realized very quickly I needed to write in order to grow my business. Writing a blog post, even at two hundred fifty words was a struggle. My sentences did not flow. My paragraphs were awkward. My completed articles and posts felt incomplete.
Then there were the critics. They mainly lived in my head but they were there nonetheless. What would they say? What would they think? What should I do?
They, as I imagined this all unfolding were the teachers and administrators I had worked with in four schools over a twenty year period. I could hear them laughing at me. And then one of them would say “No wonder our…
