First Post!

Blogging, blogs, bloggers! After I left class last Tuesday with a blog, I called my mom to chat on my ride home. (Don't worry, I have built in Bluetooth so I was safe!)  As I recapped my day, and told her I would have a blog she said, "Courtney, what is a blog? What does blog stand for?" End of my excitement, because I could not give her a good answer. "I don't really know mom, it's kind of like an online journal that anyone who comes across can take a look into."

So- welcome to my online journal that you have so luckily stumbled upon. I am a twenty-six year old 5th grade teacher in West Hartford, Connecticut. I've known I wanted to be a teacher since I was in the second grade, and now that I have lived out my dream it is not anything like I imagined it to be--and I would not trade it for the world. 

I have lofty goals for myself and my students, so stop back to check out some of the issues I feel are most important in this crazy, ever-changing world of education.