Beliefs, Behaviors, Experiences
Many years ago, I graduated from college and immediately began working as a long-term substitute teacher in an alternative school setting for eight months. This was a stressful job, working with middle and high school students who had been removed from the public-school setting for fighting, severe truancy, drug use, and/or possession of firearms at school. I was new, innocent, naïve, and focused on fixing the problems of my students. As my colleagues and I struggled through