Each new year brings change for goals you might have for yourself as a teacher, along with goals you might have for your students. At the very beginning of my teaching career, I felt that technology must be used with every single aspect of my lessons. With all of the current pushing for technology in the classroom, building up student use of these devices, it becomes a very daunting task for even the most experienced teachers. One might ask “is technology essential for a succ

Recently, I read a blog post from Mark E. Weston (@shiftparadigm) entitled Keep Looking Up -The Secret to Lifeand it really got me thinking. Mostly because Matt and I are far from having the secret to life and it feels as though balance is just a fairy tale. As educators, parents, artists, and human beings we are all pulled in so many directions. Fortunately for Matt and I we “sort of” knew what we were getting into as we are both teachers’ kids but you never fully know unti