These are my confessions...

Confession #1 : I actually like professional development. 

I know, I'm that annoying teacher in the PD class that gets all excited about what I'm learning and enthusiastically participates in the activities. I'm the teacher everyone wants to slap across the face.  I'm okay with that. I try to tone it down on most occasions because I know I have to work with these people everyday, but sometimes it's just so hard to keep it all in.  I'm a teacher geek and I'm proud of it! My teacher geek really comes out when learning about these topics:

Interactive Notebooks for Social Studies

Science Notebooking

Content Area Reading and Writing

Formative Assessment

Inquiry-based Science

Confession #2:  I pleasure read educational books.

 Next to my bed you won't find Fifty Shades of Grey, the Twilight Series, or any other bestsellers (at least not during the school year).  What you will find are these: 

Confession #3: I can never leave a lesson plan alone

In my eyes no lesson is ever perfect.  I spend hours on the internet looking for ideas and ways to make all my lessons more engaging, more researched based, more dynamic.  I just can't leave well enough alone.  It drives my husband crazy! 

So there they are my confessions! If you're a teacher geek too, join me won't you?  Let's make our classrooms better for our students and ourselves!