Yesterday's classes didn't

go as well as I had hoped for. It seemed like I lost all the momentum from last week over the weekend. I'm just now realizing that I teach first period on Monday, so maybe that had something to do with it.

*****

I know Breakthrough is all about the kids, but today my eyes really opened up to another aspect of Breakthrough: making great teachers. It's really unbelievable what happens when you put thirty-some-odd 17-24 year-olds in charge of teaching almost 1oo middle school kids. It works. And not only that, I can already see how it improves everyone's teaching. I'm so grateful that I can teach alongside so many people my age who are genuinely excited about education and motivated to reform how we educate our children.

I really owe it to my coworkers. The other day I was in the faculty room and everyone was genuinely enjoying themselves and I realized the difference between the teachers in our schools and Breakthrough teachers: we work together to make sure we are all the best teachers we can be (not that teachers don't do this, it's just that it is quite a different thing at BTH). It's very inspiring to have a fellow teacher who is concerned how I feel about a class not going as planned or anything that could get in the way of me being the best teacher i can be.

This organization could not have a more appropriate name: Breakthrough Collaborative. It really is the only way to describe it.