Author’s Note: I’ve been blogging for quite some time before discovering Teach for Us. I recognize how important it is to have an online community of teachers telling their stories, so I’ve decided to make my Teach for Us blog a mirror of my Wordpress blog. I’ll be an active participant on both platforms, though if you suggestions on how to merge the two, I’d be much obliged!

This post is my inaugural entry to Teach for Us, and it comes from an original post on August 14, 2010, the week before I started teaching as a first-year teacher. It seems like a fitting entry into the world of Teach for Us.