Meet Khristen
Hi, I’m Khristen, a career educator with 10+ years of teaching career and technical education (technology and engineering), teacher leader, a former mentor/coach for new CTE teachers in my district, an aspiring administrator, wife to a CTE teacher (welding), and a mom of three.
Like many career and technical education teachers, I went into teaching being passionate about a certain area and even a specific course–but I quickly found out that in order to have a full-time teaching job, I needed to teach several other courses–which was overwhelming. I was so busy planning for sub-par classes. I even had my principal ask me after an evaluation, “would you take your class?” that first year of teaching.
Over the years, I realized that I was working my tail off to maintain that terrible schedule. People generally say that your first year of teaching is so difficult (which it is), but I kept wondering why it wasn’t getting any easier by year three. What was I doing wrong? I was waiting for my fairy god-mother, magical master-scheduler, or student recruiter to swoop in and minimize my course load to allow me to teach what I truly wanted to teach–but that never happened. I decided that if I didn’t want to burn out (or leave teaching), I needed to figure out a way to increase my enrollment in the courses that I wanted to teach, and that was through building and fostering relationships. What I learned–and continue to learn–is what I want to share with you each week. So please, subscribe and join me for the next “On Your Prep” episode.
You don?t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
Our Mission
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec condimentum dapibus condimentum. Donec cursus lectus magna, in porttitor libero elementum a. Aliquam erat volutpat. Proin sagittis lectus sed eros tristique, vitae commodo sem faucibus. Sed posuere ut urna eu pharetra. Morbi nulla nisi, viverra eget placerat eget, dictum in odio. Vestibulum felis nulla, tincidunt et tellus non, pretium ullamcorper justo.
In purus lorem, condimentum eget orci eu, commodo convallis est. Duis at massa condimentum, gravida enim non, blandit nunc. Duis eget risus vel erat lacinia efficitur id eu lorem. In vitae neque ac est efficitur lobortis. Nulla sagittis purus nec sollicitudin ultrices. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Cras sed nulla auctor, mollis nibh a, tristique sapien. Nunc fringilla nunc ante, a venenatis tortor lobortis eget. Aliquam tempus dictum finibus.
Morbi accumsan, massa ut accumsan maximus, velit tellus sollicitudin enim, eu rhoncus turpis odio nec nibh. Nullam ullamcorper magna molestie sapien feugiat suscipit. Etiam elit nulla, facilisis ut scelerisque sit amet, feugiat quis elit. Nullam ornare ex ac ligula sodales, vitae varius mauris ullamcorper. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Nullam leo neque, pharetra eu feugiat sit amet, porttitor finibus orci. Donec in aliquet ipsum. Etiam in nisl lacinia, aliquet ipsum et, venenatis est. Ut vitae urna dapibus, feugiat sem et, mollis felis. Donec consectetur fermentum est commodo euismod. Donec iaculis nulla ut mi egestas, vel tristique augue blandit. In hendrerit eleifend massa, ut commodo nisl ultricies et. Aliquam maximus interdum ante, et molestie ipsum tincidunt in. Aliquam at ex ut arcu lacinia ullamcorper nec quis odio. Aenean aliquet nec tortor quis gravida.