• Bruises, Scrapes and Missing Teeth: A Day with 1st Graders

    In 2012, when I briefly worked as a teacher in Spain, I wrote this blog post about a classroom experience I had. It is a very much true story, and still so funny to me, that I feel like I have to keep it alive. Here it is. You never really know what to expect or what you will get when working with children. At any given moment, literally anything can happen. Kids are very clever, but they are also very fragile.  For instance, many of my students always seem to have a runny nose that mysteriously never goes away. It’s like an eternal cold. And occasionally, one or two…