{"id":164,"date":"2018-08-30T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T23:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcrowder\/?p=164"},"modified":"2018-08-30T19:53:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T23:53:18","slug":"what-if-we-just-go-back-to-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcrowder\/2018\/08\/30\/what-if-we-just-go-back-to-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"What if we just go back to the beginning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if we just go back to the beginning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As teachers we spend our days we spend our days grading papers, running\u00a0errands, comforting tiny humans, and putting out a thousand small fires a day; yet for some reason we find ourselves constantly wanting to find ways to do our job better, as if we don\u2019t have enough going on already.\u00a0 But, some days we can\u2019t give the 100% we want to, and that\u2019s okay.\u00a0 We aren\u2019t just teachers, we\u2019re humans.\u00a0 We have a family, we have life, and we have things that matter to us outside of the four walls of our classroom.\u00a0 Sometimes, we can\u2019t give it all.\u00a0 But does that mean we stop giving everything we can?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 We keep going.\u00a0 And, when we don\u2019t know what to do next, when can\u2019t find a way to better way to run our classroom, what do we do?\u00a0\u00a0Maybe, we\u00a0should forget all the things that got us to where we are now, forget all the failures, all our success, and all the things holding us back from moving forward, and\u00a0start remembering\u00a0all the reasons we became a teacher in the first place.\u00a0 What if, when we can\u2019t give 100%, we just go back to the beginning&#8230;<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=millennteacher\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if we just go back to the beginning&#8230; As teachers we spend our days we spend our days grading papers, running\u00a0errands, comforting tiny humans, and putting out a thousand small fires a day; yet for some reason we find ourselves constantly wanting to find ways to do our job better, as if we don\u2019t have enough going on already.\u00a0&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcrowder\/2018\/08\/30\/what-if-we-just-go-back-to-the-beginning\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcrowder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcrowder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcrowder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcrowder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcrowder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcrowder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcrowder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcrowder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcrowder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-kcrowder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}