Hello - for my first post, I guess I should introduce myself. I am Carol, a substitute teacher in the North Georgia mountains. I was a high school librarian for about 20 years in Pinellas County before moving in 2020. I would move away from education, but it was the easiest area to get into during COVID. Substitutes were in high demand! I started in December of 2020 and worked all grade levels. I thought elementary would be easy - all the kids like adults, right? I wasn’t ready to teach all subjects and some of the needy behaviors of elementary students, and I always seemed to get sick after being around them. So now I only work with middle school and high school. I can handle the sass and some bad behavior.  It has been a bit of culture shock going from a 128-school district to a five-school district - 3 elementary, one middle, one high - but it also makes it a lot easier, and I get to know the kids.

Now that I have been doing this for about five years, I have become a highly demanded sub. I hope to share some insights with you. I may vent occasionally. And if there is anything you’d like to know, please ask! Different areas may use different terms or ways of doing things, but I have found most classrooms don’t seem to change.