I put off writing my new year’s resolution this year because I wanted to try it out for a month – see how I did. I don’t want to preach, I want to DO. I’ve been a classroom teacher for awhile now and in every classroom community I’ve been in it is expected we clean up the classroom. At the end of the day everyone pitches in to organize their areas and clean the trash off of the floors. Inevitably I will ask a student to pick up a piece of trash and I am met with “It’s not mine”. As time goes on they learn that it doesn’t matter if it is theirs or not, we all work together to create a pleasant educational environment. As a teacher my class is expected to take care…
