Emma Vierheller

Congrats by the way!!!

I was only out for 3 weeks (summer baby) and I did a mix of Delta Math (with the upgraded subscription so i could pick problems and videos) along with Math Medic lessons where students worked together for the experience part, took notes from Google Classroom, then did Delta math

Everything is crumbling and I’m giving two meaningless state tests today.

Went from a school without one to one this year with one (students can have them on their person, but confiscated if they have them out). It’s great. The mental energy I can devote to teaching because i’m not exhausted from asking students to put them away constantly is amazing.

Any recs (especially from educators) on parenting a toddler? What does “discipline” look like at this age? My 2.5 year old is an amazing little nugget who has only recently become a boundary tester. I grew up with some fear of my parents, despite them being pretty “gentle” for 90’s parenting.

Flying from Denver to Cleveland means the small talk revolves only around how no one will see the sun until we return to Colorado.

Toddler with a blue shirt and ponytail standing on a stool in the kitchen, scrubbing the sink.

Trying to include my toddler in the chores. Takes three times as long. Luigi has gone for a swim in my coffee cup. It’s only 9:18 AM.

Who among us hasn’t returned to a brewery because a Princess Peach action figure was left behind?

being a mom and am amateur, middle of the pack ultrarunner means my post long run meal is abandoned in the kitchen while i hold a sleepy toddler back to sleep. My stomach is growling but my heart is full.

On the darkest day of the year, I’m trail running with friends I didn’t know a year ago, taking my daughter on a hike, where she will run when she could hardly walk a year ago, and watching Doctor Who’s “A Christmas Carol” (that happens every year.) Halfway out of the dark.

Thanks for writing this up as an always-curious-but-never-committing to academia math teacher. Congrats on the CSU job! (And hello from somewhere across town, I moved to Fort Collins in 2023 and teach in PSD.)

In Vote that Will Change Many Teachers’ Lives, Senate Repeals WEP/GPO In what many teachers are calling the best holiday gift they could receive, the U.S. Senate has voted 76 to 20 to finally put an end to the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset...

This is tremendous news. I can’t tell you how many second-career teachers I know whose lives are improved by this. And there are so many other public sector workers and their spouses in other kinds of situations who will now have more secure retirements.

Last day of semester 1 in school #4. And what I can’t get over is how many “schools should” or “teachers should” when the 5 schools i’ve worked at had incredibly different student populations and needs.

“But Emma, don’t you miss being near family, especially with a kid?” Yes. I do. But I won’t teach in schools where teachers carry guns, I won’t out a kid to their parent, and I don’t think they should get to leave art class to go to Bible study.

Acting. 2 semesters. Improv prepared me for teaching more than any education class. (I’m incredibly grateful to have attended a liberal arts school- taking graph theory in the morning and civil liberties in the afternoon was the dream.)

I get it. I’ve been there (and I’m kinda there now). Wishing you a better tomorrow.

I see AI and the privatization and dismantling of public education, esp in my home state and it’s enough to make me wonder if I need to pivot career paths. And i’m a diehard educator.

this has been on my mind. i read the book, critiques, podcasts with more critiques, but the core tenants (esp the recommendations, less the “research”) resonate with me and my experience

This is literally true.

School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose.

From my book WHITE FLIGHT:

Every fellow teacher I ran into today was just…so….done. They’re AMAZING teachers. You’d love for your kids to be in their class. But they’re (we’re?) so burned out. December is hard.

watching MIB for the pod and i kinda think that the script for this movie is one of the best of the 1990s

ohhh, i hope you get some! mine feel so contrived. EV versus gas cars are a good one i’ve used.

to continue this sunday’s beat-the-sunday-scaries after a nice long run… The Hobbit during kiddo naptime and a cuppa.

Landscape of a small mountain/rock with blue skies and clouds behind it

Going up and down this rock helped my souls today.

You have someone come and install one right?

My husband and I are considering buying (or leasing?) an EV before the end of the year. My 2012 Honda Civic has been trusty, but needs some work and I’m thinking lots of EV incentives will disappear soon. Anyone have any advice? Love their EV? Looking at Nissan Leafs or similar.

And i WANT to do that work!!

When the kid songs infiltrate the running songs… I had icky sticky bubble gum playing in my head for 10 miles once.

My number 1 and 5 songs were from the Mario Bros soundtrack. #2 was the Bluey theme song. We just got my little a Yoto Player so maybe next year mine will not be destroyed by a 2 year old’s whims.

I have little pangs to leave the classroom sometimes, even though I love my job. This is why. I’m so tired of just getting through the day to day instead of building something meaningful and joyful that requires time. Time that I’m no longer willing to sacrifice my evenings and weekends to have.