This is one of those TedTalks that spreads far and wide. And it should - because Rita Pierson is an amazing educator and advocate for her students, and her message is just so perfectly conveyed with both humor and heartbreaking honesty. It's from this inspiring video that many of my educator f…

Now back-to-school style means something a bit different for me. It's not the uniforms I wore from grade school through high school or the everyday clothes I wore in college. Nope, now I'm the teacher and back-to-school styles veer toward the professional. 
That being said, I like to think …