As I set here in writing workshop, I reflect on the
journeys I have taken through the past 3 weeks. Starting out as an extremely
hesitant writer, I have taken paths that before the writing project, I would
have laughed at you had you asked me to try.  Through the day long writers workshop I
was able to relate with fellow writers and let down my guard and just let me pen
flow. I have come to discover that
I am not the only one who struggles 
or at least thinks that they struggle, only to find out we are hesitant
about our ideas definitely not the lack thereof.  I have even been referred to as a writer, never imagined that happening. 
I am still not as good at the punctuation and grammar (as
you can probably tell) but there are always those English teachers around to
  proofread for me Jwriting is not about the grammar, it’s about the
voice.  Going back to my “math
class”, math is not about the numbers it’s about the thought process and problem
solving.  
I now know what to take back and turn the dreaded math
class into a normal math class.

As with anything the more you practice maybe not the better buy more comfortable you become with it, the confidence follows with the better product.  After the first complete week of the writing project this is how I am beginning to feel.  I still do not feel like my work is as good as my fellow colleagues but I feel more confident in my work and more to ask questions and begin a piece. 
I know that with the upcoming weeks and activities this will become easier and easier just like I try to convince my students everyday in math class. 
I can do this, I WILL do this.p.s.  I am in the truck (yes, Kyle is driving, and I am blogging going down the interstate!  Learning literally on the go :-). This is pretty cool!!!!

As a math teacher, I hear countless times from students, parents, colleagues, random people who find out that I am a math teacher, “I don't get math!" "I am not good at math!" "I hate math!" I never truly
understood the depth of what these individuals were saying. Math is black and white, right or wrong, finite rules to always follow, that, unlike language
arts, there are NO exceptions to the rules.  I never understood when students would decline writing on the board in my room but hear my colleagues talk about how they are not able to get everyone that wants to go to the board that ability.  If anyone is to ask me, my classroom is safe environment where we learn from everyone’s mistakes, yes, even mine, again I still do not understand why students are intimidated in my room until…I contemplated applying for the EKU writing project. Writing is my “math class”.  I am not clear, at all, on the rules of grammar, my mind constantly jumps from topic to topic and nothing is ever organized on paper if, I even have something to write about. After the interview process, pre-summer institute work, and the first two days of the summer institute, my heart still races if I think that I will be called on or even worse, being asked to read my work. My head wonders with thought such as, what if my work is the great example of what not to do, should I have this many questions, and the famous, I just don’t get this. 
But I CAN and I WILL do this, writing will not be my “math class”.