Teaching is more than a profession. It's a way of life and a way of thinking. It's never finished. It's highs and lows. It's drudgery and epiphany. It's exhilarating and exhausting. Some days are so much fun you go home grinning. Others leave you thinking that it's time to do something else. But every day of teaching is a day filled with opportunities to have a significant impact on a kid's life, and that makes you want to be a better person than you are.

Perhaps it is in the nature of teachers to reflect and verbalize, to compare notes, to question themselves and encourage others. So in this section, I've collected a few of my own reflections. The "how to" essays were written when I was an online mentor for new teachers as part of the IMPACT program, but I'm not sure I like giving advice. Let's just consider this a place to touch base. I still have way more questions than answers.