Hi, I’m Matthew Johnson!
During my first five years in the classroom, I left teaching twice. The great irony of this is that I loved nearly everything about teaching. I loved the energy, challenge, and spending my working hours helping students to know more today than they did yesterday. But there was a catch: The workload of planning for and responding to upwards of 170 students was crushing, and despite the hours I put in, students never grew as much as I hoped they would, especially when it came to writing.
This site exists because I ultimately realized that I didn’t want to leave teaching, but I also didn’t want to spend my nights and weekends hunched over papers that weren’t leading to student growth. What you will find in my newsletter and in the writings and resources on this site are the answers I’ve found for how to be more efficient and more effective because balance alongside better outcomes is possible. So welcome, and thank you for entrusting some of that most precious resource—teacher time—to me!
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