I have been engaged in numerous conversations lately laced with teacher overwhelm. We are immersed in a school year that promised us some normality...and we are finding out that it lied. The real issue is not even COVID protocols or quarantines, although those often exacerbate already overburdened teachers and students. The issue, it appears, is that we all want to be amazing after a year and a half of not so amazing, but aren't always certain where to start. For instance... In a summer workshop for The Modern Classrooms Project , ten teachers did an intense amount of work and then struggled with how to implement the time consuming model with fidelity. In an ELA lab classroom this month, I wanted to try out all the teaching for transfer strategies I was learning about and then found it difficult to manage time and the variety of student needs. In a science workshop two weeks ago, Paul Anderson inspired science teachers with ideas about daily inquiry based activities and labs and t...