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March Madness

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I lost my mojo!  No seriously.  Somewhere between March 1st and today, my mojo left the building and the scary thing is, I have no idea how to get it back! See the thing is, and I am being 100 percent serious here, I blame MARCH!  Yup, the whole month of March.  I know what you're thinking, how could a month be to blame here? But it's true.  When February ended and March slammed in I knew I was in trouble.  I mean March is literally tied to the words madness.  In fact you can't say March without thinking Madness.  And although, I don't play basketball, as a teacher I completely agree with this idea!  March is completely mad and it stole my MOJO! So....Every teacher who teaches has that one month that seems to go on forever.  You know the one I am talking about.  The month where you count the days to the next break and you realize it is literally and completely one whole month WITHOUT ANY BREAKS!  It is every teacher's nightmare.  Hands get clammy, you break out in
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How Did I Get Here?

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It all started in December when I received an email stating  that I had been nominated for a Big Apple Teacher Award and that I had made it to the next round.  My first thought was disbelief!  Can you imagine that?  You have just been told that you have been nominated for an award and the first thing that runs through your mind is "there must have been a mistake!"  How is that even possible?  Why do teachers constantly think that they aren't good enough? Once I let the news sink in for a moment or two, I reread the email and let the words sink in.  "Someone had nominated you."  That meant that someone in my school took it upon themselves to nominate me for an award because they thought that I was good.  No, strike that, they thought I was great!  They thought that I was an amazing teacher and how did I repay this gift of kindness and recognition, with the idea that I wasn't good enough to be nominated! This is a problem!  All too often, as teachers, we co
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