Goodbye 🫶🏻

I meant to do one final podcast episode as a goodbye to the "Preaching to Acquire" period of my life, but Spotify took over the platform I had been using to record post my podcast episodes and I have yet to find a way to easily log in and make a new episode... so a post will have to do.

As many of you may know, I resigned from my teaching job at the end of the 2024 school year. Although it was hard to walk away from what I had been doing the past 12 years (10 at my last school), I knew it was the right decision to make.

I am more than excited to share that I will be working full time with Señor Wooly. I can't wait to continue to impact teachers and students through my work at Wooly. It's more than a dream come true.

Since I've always tried to keep it real, I don't feel it is my place to continue giving new advice to teachers in the classroom on this podcast when I am no longer in the classroom myself. I will leave my blog, YouTube, podcast, and social media up since it may be beneficial to others who find it, but I will no longer be maintaining those pages with new content.

THANK YOU for all of the support over the year and for giving me a place to share my ups and downs and know I wasn't alone ❤️



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