It has been a while since my last post, so I feel like it's time to get back to it! This year has been a difficult start up, which is partly why I haven't written a blog post as of yet. I keep starting a post, and then changing my mind as to whether or not I should post it, and now I'm in the third week of school and have decided I just need to get back to writing - even if it's hard. The reason for the difficulty in posting: I am an ESL teacher who also teaches Spanish, and after a week of classes I lost all of my ESL classes and my schedule was changed to entirely Spanish. I am also a Spanish teacher, but ESL is where I really identify myself, and it is where I have been doing a lot of professional learning and growing. It is the area where I have felt passionately about making myself better, and helping my students to acquire language in a safe environment where they can feel comfortable making mistakes; and in an environment where we can build our own little co...